The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 16

And he wept, as if he contained within him the very fountains of the salt sea, till at last from weariness and grief he fell asleep on the edge of the tank.

Who acts: sight · What happens: weep, contain, fall · To what, where: fountains, weariness, edge

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 wept	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 contained	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 contained	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 contained	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 contained	nsubj
8	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
9	within	within	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 contained	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fountains	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 fountains	advmod
13	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contained	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sea	compound
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fountains	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 last	punct
19	till	till	ADP	_	21 last	case
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 contained	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 weariness	case
23	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 last	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grief	cc
25	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 weariness	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 weariness	acl:relcl
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 edge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 edge	det
31	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 tank	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tank	det
34	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 edge	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	sight				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	contain a condition, not said to happen	past	sight	the fountains of the salt sea		within memory	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fountain=Theme
3	fall	past	sight	weariness and grief not said here	the edge of the tank	asleep property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weariness=Result

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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Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 16