The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 31
And then as a black bee roves from flower to flower he wandered from city to city, and from one country to another: and he went north and east and west and south, till the elephants of the eight quarters knew him as it were by sight.
Who acts: black bee roves, Nightwalker, elephants, quarter · What happens: wander, go, know, be · To what, where: flower, Nightwalker
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 (black bee roves, Nightwalker, elephants, quarter), 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 roves | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 roves | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 roves | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 roves | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roves | amod |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roves | compound |
| 7 | roves | rove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 flower | case |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 flower | case |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flower | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 country | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 country | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 country | nummod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 another | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 country | nmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wandered | parataxis |
| 29 | north | north | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 east | cc |
| 31 | east | east | ADV | _ | 29 north | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 west | cc |
| 33 | west | west | ADV | _ | 29 north | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 south | cc |
| 35 | south | south | ADV | _ | 33 west | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 elephants | punct |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 elephants | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 elephants | det |
| 39 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 knew | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 quarters | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 quarters | det |
| 42 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 quarters | nummod |
| 43 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 knew | obl |
| 44 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | parataxis |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 knew | obj |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 sight | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 sight | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 sight | cop |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 sight | case |
| 50 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 knew | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | a black bee roves | flower to flower | from city; to city; from one country to another; Nightwalker nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Nightwalker | north property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | the elephants | Nightwalker | of the eight quarters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | quarter | as sight | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/31/