The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 57
And he stooped down, and took up his sword, and went slowly out of that strange hall, and sat down on the steps of a marble tank, and fell into a waking dream.
Who acts: moon · What happens: stoop down, take up, go, sit down, fall, wake · To what, where: sword, strange hall, waking dream, marble tank
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), 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 stooped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 stooped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | parataxis |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hall | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hall | amod |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | parataxis |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 sat | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 steps | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 steps | det |
| 26 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sat | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tank | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tank | det |
| 29 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tank | compound |
| 30 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 steps | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fell | cc |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sat | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 dream | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dream | det |
| 36 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 dream | amod |
| 37 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | past | moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take up | past | moon's sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | that strange hall | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | on the steps of a marble tank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | into a waking dream result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into dream=Result | |||||
| 6 | wake | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | step | a marble tank | nom step «act 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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