The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 98
The Lotus in question is a Sun-lotus '_between the Twilights_,' i.e., buried in night, and deprived of the presence of the Sun. An allusion to the title of the story is thus introduced.
Who acts: Lotus · What happens: be, bury, deprive, introduce, title · To what, where: Sun lotus, Twilights, allusion, story
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 (Lotus), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lotus | det |
| 2 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lotus | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 question | case |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lotus | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lotus | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lotus | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lotus | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lotus | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twilights | punct |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 Twilights | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Twilights | det |
| 14 | Twilights | twilight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lotus | appos |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twilights | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twilights | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twilights | punct |
| 18 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 14 Twilights | dep |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buried | punct |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Twilights | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deprived | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deprived | cc |
| 25 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lotus | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 presence | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 presence | det |
| 28 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deprived | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Sun. | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sun. | det |
| 31 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 presence | nmod |
| 32 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 allusion | det |
| 33 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 title | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 title | det |
| 36 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 allusion | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 story | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 story | det |
| 39 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 title | nmod |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 introduced | aux:pass |
| 41 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 42 introduced | advmod |
| 42 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 deprived | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lotus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Lotus in question | a Sun lotus | the Twilights appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | the Twilights not said here | night | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deprive | past | the Lotus in question not said here | of the presence of the Sun. | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of presence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | introduce | present · passive | a allusion to the title of the story | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | title | the story | nom title «communication transitive»: 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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