The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 63

And very soon they were all either dead or dying of wounds, for each was more eager to destroy another than to protect himself: and they lay all about her unable to move.

Who acts: hands, dead · What happens: be, die, destroy, protect, lay, move · To what, where: another, elephant

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 (hands, dead), 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	_	8 dead	cc
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 dead	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
7	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eager	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 dying	cc
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dead	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wounds	case
12	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eager	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 eager	mark
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 eager	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eager	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 eager	advmod
18	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 destroy	mark
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eager	xcomp
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 destroy	obj
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 protect	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 protect	mark
24	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 destroy	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 protect	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eager	parataxis
30	all	all	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
31	about	about	SCONJ	_	33 unable	mark
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 unable	nmod:poss
33	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lay	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 move	mark
35	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 unable	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 eager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	hands = hand		all, dead, either, soon property	tree rules
2	die	gerund	hands = hand not said here		of wounds	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of wound=Causer
3	is	past	dead		eager property	tree rules
4	destroy	to-infinitive	dead not said here	another		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient
5	protect	to-infinitive	dead not said here	elephant		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
6	lay	present	hands = hand		all property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	move	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 63