The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 55
There was formerly, on the banks of Ganges, an old empty temple of Shiwa.
What happens: be · To what, where: banks
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 banks | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 banks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banks | det |
| 7 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ganges | case |
| 9 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 temple | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temple | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temple | amod |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temple | amod |
| 14 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shiwa | case |
| 16 | Shiwa | Shiwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 temple | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the banks of Ganges and a old empty temple of Shiwa; there | formerly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |
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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