The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 17

But every other month, on the last day of the dark fortnight, there comes to me in a dream a vision of a woman, floating on a pool of white lotuses, in a boat of sandal with silver oars.

What happens: come, float · To what, where: me, dream, pool

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 month	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 month	amod
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 month	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 fortnight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fortnight	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fortnight	amod
13	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 month	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 comes	expl
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 comes	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dream	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dream	det
21	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 vision	det
23	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dream	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 woman	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vision	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 floating	punct
28	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 comes	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 pool	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pool	det
31	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floating	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 lotuses	case
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lotuses	amod
34	lotuses	lotus	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pool	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 boat	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 boat	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 boat	det
38	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floating	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 sandal	case
40	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boat	nmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 oars	case
42	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 oars	compound
43	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sandal	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present			me	a dream; there	month		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	float	gerund				a pool of white lotuses		in a boat of sandal with silver oars	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on pool=Source in boat=Trajectory

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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 17