The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 81
Now that ship belonged to a great merchant captain, who was returning home from a trading voyage.
Who acts: ship, great merchant captain · What happens: belong, return · To what, where: trading voyage
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 (ship, great merchant captain), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 belonged | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | nsubj |
| 4 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 captain | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 captain | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 captain | amod |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captain | compound |
| 9 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returning | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 returning | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 returning | aux |
| 13 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 captain | acl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 returning | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 voyage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voyage | det |
| 17 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voyage | compound |
| 18 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returning | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | that ship | now | to a great merchant captain | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past · progressive | a great merchant captain | a trading voyage | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from voyage=Initial_Location |
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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