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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

ccadvmodmarknsubjobjpunctadvclcaseoblcasenmodnsubjauxacl:relclcaseoblpunctconjmarkxcompobjcaseoblcasedetcompoundoblobjnsubjacl:relcldetobl:unmarkedpunctrootAndCCONJallADVaboutSCONJitPRONflittedVERBfirefliesNOUN,PUNCTlookingVERBlikeADPswarmsNOUNofADPbeesNOUNthatPRONhadAUXreturnedVERBwithADPtorchesNOUN,PUNCTunableADJtoPARTendureVERBseparationNOUNatADPnightNOUNfromADPtheDETlotusNOUNflowersNOUNwhichPRONtheyPRONlovedVERBallDETdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 flittedcc
2allallADV_5 flittedadvmod
3aboutaboutSCONJ_5 flittedmark
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 flittednsubj
5flittedflitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6firefliesfireflyNOUNNumber=Plur5 flittedobj
7,,PUNCT_8 lookingpunct
8lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 flittedadvcl
9likelikeADP_10 swarmscase
10swarmsswarmNOUNNumber=Plur8 lookingobl
11ofofADP_12 beescase
12beesbeeNOUNNumber=Plur10 swarmsnmod
13thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 returnednsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 returnedaux
15returnedreturnVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part12 beesacl:relcl
16withwithADP_17 torchescase
17torchestorchNOUNNumber=Plur15 returnedobl
18,,PUNCT_19 unablepunct
19unableunableADJDegree=Pos10 swarmsconj
20totoPART_21 enduremark
21endureendureVERBVerbForm=Inf19 unablexcomp
22separationseparationNOUNNumber=Sing21 endureobj
23atatADP_24 nightcase
24nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing21 endureobl
25fromfromADP_28 flowerscase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 flowersdet
27lotuslotusNOUNNumber=Sing28 flowerscompound
28flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur21 endureobl
29whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 lovedobj
30theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs31 lovednsubj
31lovedloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 flowersacl:relcl
32allallDETPronType=Tot33 daydet
33daydayNOUNNumber=Sing31 lovedobl:unmarked
34..PUNCT_5 flittedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1flitpastexpansefirefliesall propertyvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location firefly=Theme
2lookgerundexpanse not said herelike swarms of beesvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3returnpast · perfectbeeswith torchesvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4endureto-infinitiveexpanse not said hereseparationthe lotus flowersnightvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme separation=Circumstance
5lovepasttrees = treethe lotus flowersdayvn 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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