The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 83

So he climbed up into a tree, and looked out over the water, on which the mist hung in the moonlight like a curtain of silver on a floor of lapis-lazuli.

Who acts: river, mist · What happens: climb up, look out, hang · To what, where: tree, water, moonlight

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 (river, mist), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 hung	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mist	det
19	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	nsubj
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 moonlight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 moonlight	det
23	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 curtain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 curtain	det
26	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 silver	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 curtain	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 lazuli	case
33	lapis	lapis	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lazuli	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 lapis	punct
35	lazuli	lazuli	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 floor	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	river	a tree		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
2	look out	past	river not said here	the water		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past	the mist	the moonlight	like a curtain of silver; on a floor of lapis lazuli; which obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 83