The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 109
So day by day the proclamation sounded in the streets: and all day long the city was full of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums, and all night long sleep fled from the eyes of the citizens, as if in disgust at the noise that they made by day.
Who acts: proclamation, day, long sleep, streets, shouting criers · What happens: sound, be, shout, beat, flee, make · To what, where: streets, din, eyes, noise
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proclamation, day, long sleep, streets), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 proclamation | det |
| 6 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | nsubj |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 streets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 streets | det |
| 10 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 full | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 full | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | nsubj |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 full | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 full | cop |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sounded | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 din | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 din | det |
| 22 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 criers | case |
| 24 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 criers | amod |
| 25 | criers | crier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 din | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drums | cc |
| 27 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 drums | amod |
| 28 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 criers | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fled | cc |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fled | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sleep | amod |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fled | nsubj |
| 35 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 din | acl:relcl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 eyes | det |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fled | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 citizens | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 citizens | det |
| 41 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 eyes | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 disgust | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 disgust | case |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 disgust | mark |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 disgust | case |
| 46 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fled | obl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 noise | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 noise | det |
| 49 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 disgust | nmod |
| 50 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 made | mark |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 made | nsubj |
| 52 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 noise | acl:relcl |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 day | case |
| 54 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 made | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the proclamation | the streets | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | all day | of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums; the city nsubj; full, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | flee | past | long sleep | the din of shouting criers and beaten drums not said here | the eyes of the citizens | night | as disgust at the noise | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme din=Initial_Location | |
| 6 | make | past | streets = street | the noise not said here | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 7 | din | shouting criers and beaten drums | nom din «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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