The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 27
And the sword turned like a wheel, flashing in the moonlight, and fell back to the ground.
Who acts: sword · What happens: turn, flash, fall back · To what, where: moonlight
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 (sword), 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 turned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 wheel | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wheel | det |
| 7 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flashing | punct |
| 9 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 turned | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moonlight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moonlight | det |
| 12 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flashing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 fell | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | the sword | like a wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flash | gerund | the sword not said here | the moonlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall back | past | the sword not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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