The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 32

And he plunged into their sea, and was drowned in it, and the whole world seemed to him to be made of lotus blue[9].

Who acts: purpose, whole world · What happens: plunge, drown, seem, make · To what, where: sea, purpose

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose, whole world), 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	_	3 plunged	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 plunged	nsubj
3	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sea	nmod:poss
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plunged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drowned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drowned	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drowned	aux:pass
10	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plunged	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drowned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 world	amod
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plunged	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 made	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seemed	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 blue	case
25	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blue	obl:unmarked
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 made	xcomp
27	[	[	PUNCT	_	28 9	punct
28	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 blue	parataxis
29	]	]	PUNCT	_	28 9	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	plunge	past	purpose		eyes's sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location
2	drown	past · passive	purpose not said here		sea		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
3	seem	past	the whole world	purpose			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	to-infinitive · passive	the whole world not said here			blue property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 32

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 32