The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 31

And he swam on all day, and at last, though with difficulty, he reached the shore, when his strength was almost gone.

Who acts: Singh, strength · What happens: swim, reach, be · To what, where: shore

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 (Singh, strength), 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	_	3 swam	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 last	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 last	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swam	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
12	though	though	ADV	_	17 reached	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 difficulty	case
14	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 difficulty	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shore	det
19	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 gone	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 strength	nmod:poss
23	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shore	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	Singh		day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	Singh	the shore		with difficulty; though property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	is	past	Singh's strength			almost, gone property	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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 31