The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 98
And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast desert of burning sand, that stretched away to the very limit of the range of sight, and on its edges rested the quarters of heaven.
Who acts: vision, that · What happens: be, burn, stretch away, rest · To what, where: vast desert, limit, quarters, edges
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 (vision, that), 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 | _ | 18 desert | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 him | advmod |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 desert | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 him | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 him | cc |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 him | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 him | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 him | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 him | cc |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 him | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 him | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 desert | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 desert | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 desert | amod |
| 18 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sand | case |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 sand | amod |
| 21 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 desert | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stretched | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 stretched | nsubj |
| 24 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 desert | parataxis |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 stretched | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 limit | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 limit | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 limit | advmod |
| 29 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 range | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 range | det |
| 32 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 limit | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sight | case |
| 34 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 range | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rested | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rested | cc |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 edges | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 edges | nmod:poss |
| 39 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rested | obl |
| 40 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stretched | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 quarters | det |
| 42 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rested | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 heaven | case |
| 44 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 quarters | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 desert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | vision | a vast desert | of burning sand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stretch away | past | that | the limit of the range of sight | away property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to limit=Location | |||
| 4 | rest | past | that not said here | the quarters of heaven | sight's edges | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme on edge=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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