The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 24
So he rose up, and went out of the city, and wandered about, hither and thither, like a bubble on the waves of time.
Who acts: sight · What happens: rise up, go out, wander, wave · To what, where: city, time
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wandered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wandered | cc |
| 14 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 wandered | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hither | punct |
| 17 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 wandered | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thither | cc |
| 19 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 17 hither | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bubble | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 bubble | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bubble | det |
| 23 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wandered | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 waves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 waves | det |
| 26 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bubble | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waves | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | sight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | sight not said here | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | sight not said here | thither | like a bubble on the waves of time; about, hither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | wave | time | nom wave «event 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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