The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 46
And at the far end of the room, on a golden couch, he saw lying a dead body, covered with a white pall.
Who acts: moonlight · What happens: see, lie, cover · To what, where: far end, dead body
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 (moonlight), 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 | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | amod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 couch | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 couch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 couch | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 couch | amod |
| 13 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 body | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 saw | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pall | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pall | det |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pall | amod |
| 26 | pall | pall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | moonlight | at the far end of the room and a golden couch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | moonlight not said here | a dead body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | moonlight not said here | with a white pall | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pall=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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