The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 10
Then by and by those scoffers left him lying, and went every man his way, for the sun was going down.
Who acts: scoffers, Umra, sun · What happens: leave, lie, go, go down · To what, where: Umra, man
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scoffers, Umra, sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 left | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 scoffers | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 scoffers | det |
| 6 | scoffers | scoffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | obj |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 left | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | that scoffers | Umra | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | Umra not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | that scoffers not said here | every man | Umra's way obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 4 | go down | past · progressive | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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