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

And as he gazed, they grew larger and rapidly approached him, sending back to him, like mirrors, the red rays of the rising sun. And they drew nearer, and he saw that they were a pair of silver Swans, carrying in their bills the dead body of a third, of gold.

Who acts: bird, specks · What happens: gaze, grow, approach, send back, rise, draw · To what, where: bird, pair, dead body, bills, rising sun.

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 (bird, specks), 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	_	7 grew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 gazed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazed	nsubj
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gazed	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grew	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 approached	cc
10	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	11 approached	advmod
11	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 approached	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sending	punct
14	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 approached	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 sending	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sending	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mirrors	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 mirrors	case
20	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sending	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rays	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rays	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rays	amod
24	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mirrors	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 sun.	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun.	det
27	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sun.	amod
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rays	nmod
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 drew	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drew	nsubj
31	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
32	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 drew	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saw	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 pair	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 pair	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 pair	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pair	det
41	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 saw	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 silver	case
43	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pair	nmod
44	Swans	Swan	PROPN	Number=Plur	41 pair	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 carrying	punct
46	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 Swans	advcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 bills	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bills	nmod:poss
49	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 carrying	obl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 body	det
51	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 body	amod
52	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 carrying	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 third	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 third	det
55	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	52 body	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 gold	punct
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 gold	case
58	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 third	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	bird					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	specks = speck				large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	approach	past	specks = speck not said here	bird			rapidly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	send back	gerund	specks = speck not said here		bird		like mirrors and the red rays of the rising sun.	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
5	rise	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	draw	past	specks = speck				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	past	bird					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	specks = speck	a pair			of silver; Swans nmod	tree rules
9	carry	gerund	specks = speck not said here	the dead body of a third and gold		specks's bills		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Value in bill=Location
10	ray			the rising sun.				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
11	bill		specks = speck					nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 5