The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 4
Then in the early dawn he looked, and as the light of morning began to glimmer in the distance on the edge of the world, he saw far away in the pale air two dark specks in the sky.
Who acts: bird · What happens: look, begin, glimmer, see, light · To what, where: pale air, morning
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 (bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 looked | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dawn | det |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dawn | amod |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | nmod |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 glimmer | mark |
| 17 | glimmer | glimmer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 distance | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glimmer | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 edge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 edge | det |
| 23 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 distance | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 edge | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 away | advmod |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 saw | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 air | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 air | det |
| 34 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 air | amod |
| 35 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obl |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 specks | nummod |
| 37 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 specks | amod |
| 38 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 air | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 sky | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sky | det |
| 41 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 specks | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | bird | then; dawn | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | bird not said here | as the light of morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | glimmer | to-infinitive | bird not said here | in the distance on the edge of the world | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | bird | the pale air two dark specks in the sky | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | light | morning | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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