The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 74

So they two stood there, like pictures painted on a wall, gazing at each other, and groping in vain for recollection in the darkness of oblivion[6], like shadows in a dream.

Who acts: women · What happens: stand, paint, gaze, grope · To what, where: pictures, wall, vain

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 (women), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 they	appos
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pictures	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 pictures	case
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obl
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pictures	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gazing	punct
14	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 gazing	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 groping	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 groping	cc
20	groping	grope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 gazing	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 vain	case
22	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 groping	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 recollection	case
24	recollection	recollection	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 groping	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 darkness	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 darkness	det
27	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 groping	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 oblivion	case
29	oblivion	oblivion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 darkness	nmod
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 6	punct
31	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 oblivion	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 6	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shadows	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 shadows	case
35	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 groping	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 dream	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 dream	det
38	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shadows	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	women = woman		there	like pictures	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	paint	participle		pictures not said here	a wall		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination
3	gaze	gerund	women = woman not said here			at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
4	grope	gerund	women = woman not said here		vain	for recollection; in the darkness of oblivion; like shadows in a dream	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for recollection=Theme

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 74