The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 11
And after a while, he came to himself, and rose up, though with difficulty, from the ground, and wandered away with stumbling feet, till he came to a tank in a deserted quarter, and lay down on its brink to rest.
Who acts: Umra · What happens: come, rise up, wander away, stumble, desert, lay down · To what, where: Umra, ground, deserted quarter, brink
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 (Umra), 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 | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 while | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 difficulty | punct |
| 15 | though | though | ADP | _ | 17 difficulty | case |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 difficulty | case |
| 17 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ground | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wandered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wandered | cc |
| 24 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 wandered | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 feet | amod |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wandered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandered | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 tank | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tank | det |
| 35 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 quarter | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 quarter | det |
| 38 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 quarter | amod |
| 39 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lay | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lay | cc |
| 42 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 42 lay | advmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 brink | case |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 brink | nmod:poss |
| 46 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lay | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 rest | mark |
| 48 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 lay | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Umra | Umra | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rise up | past | Umra not said here | the ground | though difficulty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wander away | past | Umra not said here | with stumbling feet; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stumble | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | Umra | a deserted quarter | to a tank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tank=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | lay down | infinitive | Umra not said here | quarter's brink | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on brink=Destination | |||
| 8 | rest | to-infinitive | Umra not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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