The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 103
For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that lies, either in going forward or going back.
Who acts: certain death · What happens: remain, be, lie, go, go back
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain death), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 remain | case |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 remain | mark |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 impossible | csubj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remain | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 impossible | cop |
| 6 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 death | cc |
| 9 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 10 certain | advmod |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 death | amod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impossible | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 death | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 16 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc:preconj |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 going | mark |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lies | advcl |
| 19 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 going | cc |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 going | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 going | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | to-infinitive | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the certain death parataxis; impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | present | the certain death | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the certain death not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go back | gerund | the certain death not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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