The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 6

So these two Swans crossed over that dreadful desert with the rapidity of the lightning that resembled them, and settled beside him on the hill, to rest.

Who acts: two Swans, lightning · What happens: cross, resemble, settle, rest · To what, where: dreadful desert, Swans

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 (two Swans, lightning), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 crossed	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Swans	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Swans	nummod
4	Swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossed	nsubj
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 desert	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 desert	det
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 desert	amod
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rapidity	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rapidity	det
12	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 desert	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lightning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lightning	det
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rapidity	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 resembled	nsubj
17	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lightning	acl:relcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 resembled	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 settled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 settled	cc
21	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	conj
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 settled	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 hill	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hill	det
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 settled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rest	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rest	mark
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 settled	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	this two Swans		that dreadful desert with the rapidity of the lightning		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over desert=Initial_Location
2	resemble	past	the lightning	Swans = swan			tree rules
3	settle	past	this two Swans not said here			beside bird; on the hill	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on hill=Topic
4	rest	to-infinitive	this two Swans not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 6

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 6