The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 91
And then the sun rose over the eastern mountain, and began like himself to climb up into the sky.
Who acts: sun · What happens: rise, begin, climb up · To what, where: eastern mountain, 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 (sun), 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 rose | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 8 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountain | amod |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 began | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 climb | mark |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 climb | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | the eastern mountain | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the sun not said here | like Sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | climb up | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | the sky | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sky=Destination |
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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