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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 99

And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was furrowed and pitted with holes and chasms; and its surface rose and fell, as he watched it, like a woman's breast, and it looked as if it were alive, though it was in truth the home of death.

Who acts: quarter, surface, it, sun · What happens: glow, furrow, pit, rise, fall, watch · To what, where: fire, quarter, truth, rays

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 (quarter, surface, it, 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

ccnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmod:posscasenmodcasedetnmodpunctccaux:passconjccconjcaseoblccconjpunctccnmod:possnsubjconjccconjpunctmarknsubjconjobjpunctcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccnsubjconjmarkmarknsubjcopadvclpunctmarknsubjcopcaseparataxisdetnmodcasenmodpunctrootAndCCONJitPRONglowedVERBinADPtheDETfireNOUNofADPtheDETsunNOUN'sPARTraysNOUNlikeADPaDETfurnaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXfurrowedVERBandCCONJpittedVERBwithADPholesNOUNandCCONJchasmsNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJitsPRONsurfaceNOUNroseVERBandCCONJfellVERB,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONwatchedVERBitPRON,PUNCTlikeADPaDETwomanNOUN'sPARTbreastNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONlookedVERBasSCONJifSCONJitPRONwereAUXaliveADJ,PUNCTthoughSCONJitPRONwasAUXinADPtruthNOUNtheDEThomeNOUNofADPdeathNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 glowedcc
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 glowednsubj
3glowedglowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ininADP_6 firecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 firedet
6firefireNOUNNumber=Sing3 glowedobl
7ofofADP_11 rayscase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 sundet
9sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing11 raysnmod:poss
10's'sPART_9 suncase
11raysrayNOUNNumber=Plur6 firenmod
12likelikeADP_14 furnacecase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 furnacedet
14furnacefurnaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 raysnmod
15,,PUNCT_18 furrowedpunct
16andandCCONJ_18 furrowedcc
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 furrowedaux:pass
18furrowedfurrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 glowedconj
19andandCCONJ_20 pittedcc
20pittedpitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 furrowedconj
21withwithADP_22 holescase
22holesholeNOUNNumber=Plur20 pittedobl
23andandCCONJ_24 chasmscc
24chasmschasmNOUNNumber=Plur22 holesconj
25;;PUNCT_29 rosepunct
26andandCCONJ_29 rosecc
27itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 surfacenmod:poss
28surfacesurfaceNOUNNumber=Sing29 rosensubj
29roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 glowedconj
30andandCCONJ_31 fellcc
31fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 roseconj
32,,PUNCT_35 watchedpunct
33asasSCONJ_35 watchedmark
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 watchednsubj
35watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 fellconj
36ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 watchedobj
37,,PUNCT_42 breastpunct
38likelikeADP_42 breastcase
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 womandet
40womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing42 breastnmod:poss
41's'sPART_40 womancase
42breastbreastNOUNNumber=Sing35 watchedobl
43,,PUNCT_46 lookedpunct
44andandCCONJ_46 lookedcc
45ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 lookednsubj
46lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 roseconj
47asasSCONJ_51 alivemark
48ififSCONJ_51 alivemark
49ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs51 alivensubj
50werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin51 alivecop
51alivealiveADJDegree=Pos46 lookedadvcl
52,,PUNCT_57 truthpunct
53thoughthoughSCONJ_57 truthmark
54ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs57 truthnsubj
55wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin57 truthcop
56ininADP_57 truthcase
57truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing46 lookedparataxis
58thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art59 homedet
59homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing57 truthnmod
60ofofADP_61 deathcase
61deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing59 homenmod
62..PUNCT_3 glowedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1glowpastquarterthe fire of the sun's rays like a furnacevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fire=Location
2furrowpast · passivequarter not said herevn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»
3pitparticiplequarter not said herewith holes and chasmsvn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4risepastquarter's surfacevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5fallpastquarter's surface not said herevn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6watchpastsurfacequarterlike a woman's breastvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7lookpastitvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8ispastquarteralive propertytree rules
9ispastquartertruththe home of death nmodtree rules
10firethe sun's rays like a furnacenom fire «event transitive»: of=patient
11raythe sunlike a furnacenom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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