The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 86
And their spirits rose out of those mortal bodies which they had abandoned, and soared away to their heavenly home, locked in each other's arms.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: rise, abandon, soar away, lock · To what, where: mortal bodies, heavenly home, arms
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rose | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 3 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 bodies | det |
| 8 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bodies | amod |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 abandoned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 abandoned | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 abandoned | aux |
| 13 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bodies | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 soared | cc |
| 16 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 soared | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 home | amod |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 soared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 locked | punct |
| 23 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 soared | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 other | case |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 locked | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | lovers's spirits | that mortal bodies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out body=Location | ||||
| 2 | abandon | past · perfect · passive | that mortal bodies | lovers = lover nsubj | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | soar away | past | lovers's spirits not said here | lovers's heavenly home | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to home=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | lock | participle | each other's arms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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