The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 104
But the moon had not yet risen, for it was the beginning of the dark half of the month.
Who acts: sun · What happens: not rise, be · To what, where: moon
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 risen | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 risen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 risen | advmod |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 risen | advmod |
| 7 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beginning | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 beginning | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beginning | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beginning | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beginning | det |
| 13 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 risen | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 half | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 half | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 half | amod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 beginning | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 month | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 month | det |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · perfect · passive | the moon | yet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sun | for the beginning | of the dark half of the month | tree rules |
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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