The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 65
And then they went together to the forest, to find that old ascetic.
Who acts: travellers · What happens: go together, find · To what, where: forest, old ascetic
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 (travellers), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 ascetic | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ascetic | amod |
| 14 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | travellers = traveller | the forest | then | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | travellers = traveller not said here | that old ascetic | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Topic |
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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