The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 101
[1] For Ganesha's trunk is usually smeared with vermilion.
What happens: smear
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 smeared | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 trunk | case |
| 5 | Ganesha | Ganesha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ganesha | case |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smeared | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 smeared | aux:pass |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 smeared | advmod |
| 10 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 vermilion | case |
| 12 | vermilion | vermilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smeared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | present · passive | for Ganesha's trunk; with vermilion; 1 discourse; usually property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with vermilion=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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