The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 8
For though they knew it not, they were looking at the reflection of the glory of the moon-crested god.
Who acts: depths, crested god · What happens: not know, look, crest, glory · To what, where: perception
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 (depths, crested god), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 reflection | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reflection | det |
| 13 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 glory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 glory | det |
| 16 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflection | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 god | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 god | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crested | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 moon | punct |
| 21 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 god | amod |
| 22 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glory | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | depths = depth | perception | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | depths = depth | at the reflection of the glory of the crested god | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reflection=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crest | participle | moon compound | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glory | the crested god | nom glory «state 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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