The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 32
And he crept up out of the water, as the sun was going down; and overcome with weariness, he lay down, there where he came up out of the sea, and fell asleep.
Who acts: Singh, sun · What happens: creep up, go down, overcome, lie down, come up, fall · To what, where: water, sea
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, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 crept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 crept | compound:prt |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 crept | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 overcome | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 overcome | cc |
| 18 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 weariness | case |
| 20 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overcome | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 came | expl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 came | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 sea | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sea | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fell | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fell | cc |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 38 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fell | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep up | past | Singh | the water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go down | past · progressive | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | overcome | present | with weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | lie down | past | Singh | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come up | past | Singh | the sea; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | Singh not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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