The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 40

So he went up from the shore, and through the streets of the city, that lay before him, black and white, in the rays of the silver moon.

Who acts: moon, that · What happens: go up, lie, ray · To what, where: shore, streets, silver moon

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 (moon, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 streets	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 streets	det
12	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 streets	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 black	punct
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 white	cc
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 black	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rays	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 rays	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rays	det
28	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 moon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moon	det
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 moon	compound
32	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rays	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	moon		the shore			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	lie	past	that		the streets of the city	before moon	in the rays of the silver moon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Location
3	ray			the silver moon				nom ray «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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 40