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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 entered | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 entered | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 15 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hall | amod |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pierced | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 walls | nmod:poss |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pierced | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pierced | aux:pass |
| 21 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hall | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 windows | case |
| 23 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 windows | amod |
| 24 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pierced | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 fell | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moonlight | det |
| 29 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pierced | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cold | punct |
| 32 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fell | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 camphor | case |
| 34 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stones | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 stones | case |
| 37 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stones | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 moon | punct |
| 39 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fell | obl |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 hung | nsubj |
| 41 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 stones | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 clusters | case |
| 43 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 hung | obl |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 roof | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 roof | det |
| 46 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hung | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | moon | a door | a sudden | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | ||
| 2 | find | past | moon not said here | moon | a vast hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | pierce | past · passive | walls | with tall windows | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with window=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the moonlight | moon stones | as camphor; which obl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | |||
| 5 | hang | past | moon stones | clusters | from the roof | vn 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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