The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 37

For they wear the guise of a friend, and so finding entrance into my heart sting it like serpents, turning into poison the nectar of him whom most of all I long to see.

Who acts: Hindoos, heart, I · What happens: wear, find, sting, turn, see · To what, where: guise, entrance, poison

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, heart, I), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 wear	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wear	nsubj
3	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guise	det
5	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guise	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finding	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 finding	advmod
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wear	advcl
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obj
14	into	into	SCONJ	_	17 sting	mark
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sting	nsubj
17	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 finding	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sting	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 serpents	case
20	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turning	punct
22	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 finding	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 poison	case
24	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turning	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nectar	det
26	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 all	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nectar	nmod
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 all	obj
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 all	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 turning	obl
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 see	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 all	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	present	Hindoos = hindoo	the guise of a friend			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guise=Source
2	find	gerund	Hindoos = hindoo not said here	entrance			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Topic
3	sting	infinitive	my heart	entrance		like serpents	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	turn	gerund	Hindoos = hindoo not said here		poison	of all the nectar of heart	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into poison=Source of all=Trajectory
5	see	to-infinitive	I			long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 8, sentence 37