The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 26
And then he went from city to city, and from one country to another, eluding the pursuit of the agents sent after him by his father to bring him back, till at last he came to Indirálayá.
Who acts: Umra, pursuit · What happens: go, elude, send, bring back, come, pursue · To what, where: city, Umra, Indirálayá, agents
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, pursuit), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 country | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 country | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 country | nummod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 country | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eluding | punct |
| 17 | eluding | elude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pursuit | det |
| 19 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 agents | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 agents | det |
| 22 | agents | agent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pursuit | nmod |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eluding | ccomp |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 bring | mark |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sent | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bring | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 bring | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 last | punct |
| 34 | till | till | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bring | advcl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 last | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Indirálayá | case |
| 40 | Indirálayá | Indirálayá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Umra | city | then | to city; from one country to another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location to city=Destination | ||
| 2 | elude | gerund | Umra not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | the pursuit of the agents | after Umra | by Umra's father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | the pursuit of the agents not said here | Umra | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Umra | Indirálayá | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to indirálayá=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | pursue | the agents | nom pursuit «act 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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