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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 44

Then on a sudden he entered a door, and found himself in a vast hall, whose walls were pierced with tall windows, through which the moonlight fell, cold as camphor, on moon-stones that hung in clusters from the roof.

Who acts: moon, moonlight, moon stones · What happens: enter, find, pierce, fall, hang · To what, where: door, sudden, moon, vast hall, walls, moon stones

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, moonlight, moon stones), 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

advmodcasedetoblnsubjdetobjpunctccconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctnmod:possnsubjaux:passparataxiscaseamodoblpunctcaseobldetnsubjconjpunctconjcaseoblpunctcasecompoundpunctoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootThenADVonADPaDETsuddenADJhePRONenteredVERBaDETdoorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJfoundVERBhimselfPRONinADPaDETvastADJhallNOUN,PUNCTwhosePRONwallsNOUNwereAUXpiercedVERBwithADPtallADJwindowsNOUN,PUNCTthroughADPwhichPRONtheDETmoonlightNOUNfellVERB,PUNCTcoldADJasADPcamphorNOUN,PUNCTonADPmoonNOUN-PUNCTstonesNOUNthatPRONhungVERBinADPclustersNOUNfromADPtheDETroofNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem6 enteredadvmod
2ononADP_4 suddencase
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 suddendet
4suddensuddenADJDegree=Pos6 enteredobl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 enterednsubj
6enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 doordet
8doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing6 enteredobj
9,,PUNCT_11 foundpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 foundcc
11foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 enteredconj
12himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 foundobj
13ininADP_16 hallcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 halldet
15vastvastADJDegree=Pos16 hallamod
16hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing11 foundobl
17,,PUNCT_21 piercedpunct
18whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel19 wallsnmod:poss
19wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur21 piercednsubj
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 piercedaux:pass
21piercedpierceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 hallparataxis
22withwithADP_24 windowscase
23talltallADJDegree=Pos24 windowsamod
24windowswindowNOUNNumber=Plur21 piercedobl
25,,PUNCT_30 fellpunct
26throughthroughADP_27 whichcase
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 fellobl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 moonlightdet
29moonlightmoonlightNOUNNumber=Sing30 fellnsubj
30fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 piercedconj
31,,PUNCT_32 coldpunct
32coldcoldADJDegree=Pos30 fellconj
33asasADP_34 camphorcase
34camphorcamphorNOUNNumber=Sing30 fellobl
35,,PUNCT_39 stonespunct
36ononADP_39 stonescase
37moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing39 stonescompound
38--PUNCT_37 moonpunct
39stonesstoneNOUNNumber=Plur30 fellobl
40thatthatPRONPronType=Rel41 hungnsubj
41hunghangVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 stonesacl:relcl
42ininADP_43 clusterscase
43clustersclusterNOUNNumber=Plur41 hungobl
44fromfromADP_46 roofcase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 roofdet
46roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing41 hungobl
47..PUNCT_6 enteredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1enterpastmoona doora suddenthenvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination
2findpastmoon not said heremoona vast hallvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3piercepast · passivewallswith tall windowsvn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with window=Instrument
4fallpastthe moonlightmoon stonesas camphor; which oblvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location
5hangpastmoon stonesclustersfrom the roofvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=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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