The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 108
And suddenly memory came upon that old King, and out of the darkness of the past there rose before him the series of his former lives.
Who acts: memory · What happens: come, rise · To what, where: series, darkness
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 (memory), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 King | nsubj |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 darkness | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 darkness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 darkness | det |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 past | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 past | det |
| 17 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 darkness | nmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 rose | advmod |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rose | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 series | det |
| 23 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lives | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lives | nmod:poss |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lives | amod |
| 27 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 series | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | memory | upon old King that; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon king=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | memory not said here | the series of memory's former lives | the darkness of the past; there | before memory | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location series=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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