The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 48
And he moved on slowly, through the lights of the windows and the shadows of the walls, till he came up to the end of the hall, and stood beside the couch.
Who acts: moonlight · What happens: move on, come up, stand, light, shadow · To what, where: lights, end, couch, windows, walls
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 | _ | 3 moved | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lights | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 lights | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lights | det |
| 9 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windows | det |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lights | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shadows | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadows | det |
| 15 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 windows | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shadows | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hall | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hall | det |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 end | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stood | cc |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | conj |
| 33 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 35 couch | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 couch | det |
| 35 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move on | past | moonlight | the lights of the windows and the shadows of the walls | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through light=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come up | past | moonlight | to the end of the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | moonlight not said here | the couch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside couch=Location | ||||
| 4 | light | the windows and the shadows of the walls | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | shadow | the walls | nom shadow «state 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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