The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 69
Lo! he was standing in that very tank in Indirálayá, from which he had started, years before, to find the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. Then in his amazement, his flesh crept, and his hair stood on end.
Who acts: sun, flesh, hair · What happens: stand, start, find, creep, amaze · To what, where: tank, Land, amazement, end
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 (sun, flesh, hair), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 standing | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tank | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tank | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 tank | advmod |
| 9 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Indirálayá | case |
| 11 | Indirálayá | Indirálayá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tank | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 started | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 started | aux |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 standing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 years | punct |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 started | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 started | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 find | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 started | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Land | det |
| 25 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Lotus | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Lotus | det |
| 28 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Land | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Sun. | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sun. | det |
| 31 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Lotus | nmod |
| 32 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 crept | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 amazement | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 35 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crept | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 amazement | punct |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 38 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crept | nsubj |
| 39 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 stood | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 stood | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hair | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 crept | advcl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stood | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | sun | that tank in Indirálayá | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tank=Location | ||||
| 2 | start | past · perfect | sun | year | which obl; before property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | |||||
| 4 | creep | past | sun's flesh | sun's amazement | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amazement=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | stand | past | sun's hair | on end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | ||||
| 6 | amaze | sun | nom amazement «feeling 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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