The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 47
Then instantly, hearing that terrible summons, all the denizens of the wood, Yakshas and Pisháchas, Rákshasas and Hamadryads, with the wild animals and the rest, assembled together and flew towards the sound, and crowded around the gong like flies or bees to honey or a dead body.
Who acts: that · What happens: summon, assemble, fly · To what, where: sound
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 (that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 instantly | advmod |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instantly | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 instantly | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 summons | nsubj |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 summons | amod |
| 7 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hearing | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 denizens | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 denizens | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 denizens | det |
| 11 | denizens | denizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 summons | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 denizens | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yakshas | punct |
| 16 | Yakshas | Yakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 denizens | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Pisháchas | cc |
| 18 | Pisháchas | Pisháchas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Yakshas | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Rákshasas | punct |
| 20 | Rákshasas | Rákshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Yakshas | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Hamadryads | cc |
| 22 | Hamadryads | hamadryad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Yakshas | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 animals | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 animals | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animals | det |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 animals | amod |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 summons | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rest | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rest | det |
| 30 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summons | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 assembled | punct |
| 32 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 summons | parataxis |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 assembled | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flew | cc |
| 35 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 assembled | conj |
| 36 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 38 sound | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sound | det |
| 38 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 crowded | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 crowded | cc |
| 41 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flew | conj |
| 42 | around | around | ADP | _ | 44 gong | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gong | det |
| 44 | gong | gong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 crowded | obl |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 flies | case |
| 46 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 gong | nmod |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 bees | cc |
| 48 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 flies | conj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 honey | mark |
| 50 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bees | conj |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 54 body | cc |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 body | det |
| 53 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 body | amod |
| 54 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 honey | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 instantly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | that | all denizens of the wood Yakshas and Pisháchas and Rákshasas and Hamadryads conj; the wild animals conj; the rest conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | assemble | participle | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the sound | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sound=Destination |
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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