The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 88

Then all of a sudden they disappeared and went, like flashes of lightning, somewhere else.

Who acts: all, lightning · What happens: disappear, go, flash

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 (all, lightning), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 disappeared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sudden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sudden	det
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 all	nmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 disappeared	nsubj
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flashes	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 flashes	case
12	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 lightning	case
14	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flashes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 somewhere	punct
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 flashes	advmod
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 somewhere	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	all of a sudden	others = other nsubj	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	all of a sudden not said here	like flashes of lightning	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flash		lightning		nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 88