The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 86
So he climbed up, and up, and as he climbed, the water rose after him, higher and higher, until at last he could see nothing but the water, and the moon, and the tree that stretched away above him into the sky.
Who acts: moon, water, tree · What happens: climb up, climb, rise, see, stretch away · To what, where: moon, nothing, last, sky
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 (moon, water, tree), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 up | cc |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 climbed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 climbed | nsubj |
| 12 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 higher | punct |
| 20 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 rose | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 higher | cc |
| 22 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 higher | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 see | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rose | conj |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 water | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 moon | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 moon | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 moon | det |
| 37 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 stretched | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 stretched | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stretched | nsubj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 stretched | nsubj |
| 43 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 stretched | advmod |
| 45 | above | above | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stretched | obl |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 sky | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sky | det |
| 49 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stretched | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | moon | the moon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | moon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | the water | after moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | could | moon | nothing the water | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stretch away | past | the tree | the sky | above moon; that nsubj; away property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sky=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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