The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 90
So he continued to climb and climb, while the water rose, and the moon sank, and the night gradually came to an end.
Who acts: resource, water, moon · What happens: continue, climb, rise, sink, come · To what, where: end
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 (resource, water, moon), 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 continued | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 climb | mark |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 climb | cc |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climb | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 rose | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climb | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sank | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sank | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | nsubj |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | resource | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | resource not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | climb | infinitive | resource not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sink | past | the moon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | come | past | resource not said here | to a end; night | gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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