The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 7
And like men lying on their backs and gazing into the depths of the sky, they felt as it were enveloped in the colour of heaven, and lost their perception of mundane affairs.
Who acts: men, depths · What happens: lie, gaze, feel, envelop, lose, perceive · To what, where: backs, sky, colour, perception, mundane affairs
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 (men, depths), 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 | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 men | case |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 felt | obl |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 men | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 backs | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 backs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lying | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gazing | cc |
| 9 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lying | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 depths | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 depths | det |
| 12 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gazing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depths | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 enveloped | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 enveloped | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 enveloped | aux:pass |
| 22 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 felt | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 colour | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 colour | det |
| 25 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enveloped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 colour | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lost | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lost | cc |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 perception | nmod:poss |
| 32 | perception | perception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 affairs | case |
| 34 | mundane | mundane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 affairs | amod |
| 35 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 perception | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | men not said here | men's backs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | men not said here | into the depths of the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into depth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | depths = depth | like men | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | envelop | past · passive | sky | the colour of heaven | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | depths = depth not said here | depths's perception of mundane affairs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perception=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | perceive | depths = depth | mundane affairs | nom perception «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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