The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 67

And there on a sudden they came upon that old sage, and saw him standing, plunged in meditation, motionless as a tree.

Who acts: travellers, hand · What happens: come, see, stand, plunge · To what, where: sudden, hand

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, hand), 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	_	7 came	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 came	expl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sudden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sudden	det
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 sage	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sage	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sage	amod
11	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	obj
16	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 saw	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 plunged	punct
18	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 standing	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 meditation	case
20	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plunged	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 motionless	punct
22	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meditation	amod
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 motionless	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	travellers = traveller		a sudden; there	upon that old sage	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sudden=Location
2	see	past	travellers = traveller not said here	hand			tree rules
3	stand	gerund	hand not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	plunge	participle	hand not said here			in meditation	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in meditation=Attribute

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 67