The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 25
And he fled away by night into another country, abandoning his royal position for the sake of his dream.
Who acts: Umra · What happens: flee away, abandon, dream · To what, where: country, royal position
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: who acts (Umra), 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 | _ | 3 fled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 fled | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 abandoning | punct |
| 11 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fled | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 position | nmod:poss |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 position | amod |
| 14 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abandoning | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sake | det |
| 17 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abandoning | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dream | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sake | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee away | past | Umra | another country | night | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | abandon | gerund | Umra not said here | Umra's royal position | for the sake of Umra's dream | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme position=Source | |||
| 3 | dream | Umra | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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