The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 19
Then time passed away, and the years with the seasons followed each other like caravans over the desert, and old age and grey hair came and took up their dwelling at the wrinkled root of the King's ear.
Who acts: years, old age, age · What happens: pass away, follow, come, take up, dwell, wrinkle · To what, where: each, desert, wrinkled root
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 (years, old age, age), 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 | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 years | det |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 seasons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seasons | det |
| 11 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 years | nmod |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 followed | obj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 caravans | case |
| 16 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 desert | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 desert | det |
| 19 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 age | amod |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hair | cc |
| 25 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 26 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 age | conj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 took | compound:prt |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 dwelling | nsubj |
| 32 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 took | advcl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 root | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 root | det |
| 35 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 root | amod |
| 36 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dwelling | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 ear | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 ear | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 41 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 root | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | then; time | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the years with the seasons | each | the desert | like caravans | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme over desert=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | come | past | old age and grey hair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | old age and grey hair not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dwell | gerund | age | the wrinkled root of the King's ear | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at root=Location | ||||
| 6 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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