The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 93
And in an instant he forgot his journey and his toil, and obtained in that moment the nectar of emancipation from the hunger of longing, and the pain of separation, and the terror of untimely death.
Who acts: Umra, longing · What happens: forget, obtain, journey, toil, hunger, pain · To what, where: journey, instant, separation
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 (Umra, longing), 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 | _ | 6 forgot | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgot | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forgot | nsubj |
| 6 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgot | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 toil | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 toil | nmod:poss |
| 11 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obtained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obtained | cc |
| 14 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 forgot | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obtained | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nectar | det |
| 19 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 emancipation | case |
| 21 | emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nectar | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 hunger | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hunger | det |
| 24 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emancipation | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 longing | case |
| 26 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hunger | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pain | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pain | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pain | det |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgot | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 separation | case |
| 32 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pain | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 terror | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 terror | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 terror | det |
| 36 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgot | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 38 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 death | amod |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 terror | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Umra | Umra's journey and Umra's toil | a instant | the pain of separation parataxis; the terror of untimely death parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | obtain | participle | Umra not said here | moment | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | journey | Umra | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | toil | Umra | nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | hunger | longing | nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | pain | separation | nom pain «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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