The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 26
And all about it flitted fireflies, looking like swarms of bees that had returned with torches, unable to endure separation at night from the lotus flowers which they loved all day.
Who acts: expanse, bees, trees · What happens: flit, look, return, endure, love · To what, where: fireflies, separation, lotus flowers
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 (expanse, bees, trees), 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 | _ | 5 flitted | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 flitted | advmod |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 flitted | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flitted | nsubj |
| 5 | flitted | flit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fireflies | firefly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flitted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 flitted | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 swarms | case |
| 10 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bees | case |
| 12 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swarms | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 bees | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 torches | case |
| 17 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unable | punct |
| 19 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 swarms | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 endure | mark |
| 21 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unable | xcomp |
| 22 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 endure | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 endure | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flowers | det |
| 27 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flowers | compound |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 endure | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 loved | obj |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 loved | nsubj |
| 31 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 loved | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flit | past | expanse | fireflies | all property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location firefly=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | expanse not said here | like swarms of bees | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | return | past · perfect | bees | with torches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | endure | to-infinitive | expanse not said here | separation | the lotus flowers | night | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme separation=Circumstance | ||
| 5 | love | past | trees = tree | the lotus flowers | day | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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