The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 105
Yet how shall I escape the vigilance of yonder dreadful Dwellers in the Sand, wading with difficulty in its substance that will sink under my feet like the waves of the sea, but over which they scud like the shadow of a cloud?
Who acts: I, substance, feet · What happens: escape, wade, sink, scud, wave, shadow · To what, where: vigilance, substance, feet, sea, cloud
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 (I, substance, feet), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 escape | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 escape | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | nsubj |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vigilance | det |
| 7 | vigilance | vigilance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escape | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Dwellers | case |
| 9 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 dreadful | advmod |
| 10 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dwellers | amod |
| 11 | Dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vigilance | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Sand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sand | det |
| 14 | Sand | Sand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dwellers | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wading | punct |
| 16 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 escape | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 difficulty | case |
| 18 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wading | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 substance | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 substance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wading | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sink | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sink | aux |
| 24 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 substance | acl:relcl |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sink | obl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 waves | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 waves | det |
| 30 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 feet | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 waves | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 scud | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 scud | cc |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 scud | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 scud | nsubj |
| 39 | scud | scud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | conj |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 shadow | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 shadow | det |
| 42 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 scud | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 cloud | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 cloud | det |
| 45 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shadow | nmod |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | shall | I | the vigilance of dreadful Dwellers in the Sand | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigilance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wade | gerund | I not said here | difficulty's substance | with difficulty | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in substance=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | sink | future | difficulty's substance | my feet like the waves of the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scud | present | feet = foot | like the shadow of a cloud; which obl | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | shadow | a cloud | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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