The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 95
For surely I am on the very roof of the world, and alone with the sun in the sky.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: roof
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 surely | case |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 roof | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 roof | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 roof | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 roof | advmod |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sun | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sun | cc |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 sun | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sun | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | the roof and the sun in the sky | of the world; the sun in the sky conj | tree rules |
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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