The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 2
And then at length the sun went to his rest in the western quarter, and the moon rose, and was reflected in the bright eyes of those sand-haunting Rákshasas, which glittered in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus.
Who acts: sun, moon, haunting Rákshasas · What happens: go, rise, reflect, haunt, glitter · To what, where: length, bright eyes
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, moon, haunting Rákshasas), 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 | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 went | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 quarter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 13 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quarter | amod |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reflected | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reflected | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reflected | aux:pass |
| 23 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rose | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyes | det |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reflected | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Rákshasas | case |
| 29 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 Rákshasas | det |
| 30 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 haunting | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sand | punct |
| 32 | haunting | haunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 Rákshasas | amod |
| 33 | Rákshasas | Rákshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 glittered | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 glittered | nsubj |
| 36 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Rákshasas | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 distance | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 distance | det |
| 39 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 glittered | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 desert | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 desert | det |
| 42 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 desert | amod |
| 43 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 distance | nmod |
| 44 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 drops | case |
| 45 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 desert | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 water | case |
| 47 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 drops | nmod |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 leaf | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 leaf | det |
| 50 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 water | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 lotus | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 lotus | det |
| 53 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 lotus | amod |
| 54 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 leaf | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the sun | length | then | to sun's rest; in the western quarter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rest=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rise | past | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reflect | past · passive | the moon not said here | the bright eyes of that haunting Rákshasas | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | haunt | gerund | sand compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | glitter | past | that haunting Rákshasas | in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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