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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 103

Now it happened, by the ordinance of fate, that long ago, when he was himself a child, exactly the same thing had happened to that old King.

Who acts: it, Umra, same thing · What happens: happen, be, ordain · To what, where: Umra, child, old King, fate

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 (it, Umra, same thing), 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

advmodnsubjpunctcasedetoblcasenmodpunctnsubjadvmodadvmodpunctmarknsubjcopobldetconjpunctadvmoddetamodnsubjauxacl:relclcasensubjamodoblpunctrootNowADVitPRONhappenedVERB,PUNCTbyADPtheDETordinanceNOUNofADPfateNOUN,PUNCTthatPRONlongADVagoADV,PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRONwasAUXhimselfPRONaDETchildNOUN,PUNCTexactlyADVtheDETsameADJthingNOUNhadAUXhappenedVERBtoADPthatPRONoldADJKingPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 happenedadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_7 ordinancepunct
5bybyADP_7 ordinancecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 ordinancedet
7ordinanceordinanceNOUNNumber=Sing3 happenedobl
8ofofADP_9 fatecase
9fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing7 ordinancenmod
10,,PUNCT_13 agopunct
11thatthatPRONPronType=Rel13 agonsubj
12longlongADVDegree=Pos13 agoadvmod
13agoagoADV_7 ordinanceadvmod
14,,PUNCT_18 himselfpunct
15whenwhenSCONJ_18 himselfmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 himselfnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 himselfcop
18himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes13 agoobl
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 childdet
20childchildNOUNNumber=Sing18 himselfconj
21,,PUNCT_27 happenedpunct
22exactlyexactlyADV_27 happenedadvmod
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 thingdet
24samesameADJDegree=Pos25 thingamod
25thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing27 happenednsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 happenedaux
27happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 childacl:relcl
28totoADP_31 Kingcase
29thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem31 Kingnsubj
30oldoldADJDegree=Pos31 Kingamod
31KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing27 happenedobl
32..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitnowby the ordinance of fatevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ordinance=Location
2is apastUmraUmraa child conjtree rules
3happenpast · perfectthe same thinga child not said hereold King thatexactly propertytree rules
4ordainfatenom ordinance «communication 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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