The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 11
Then said Kamalamitra: Since it is so, and I must absolutely choose, then give me a wife, whose eyes, like these hills and this sky, shall be full of the dusky lustre[5] of thy throat and thy moon, as if, insatiate of gazing at thee, they had become, not transitory mirrors, but pictures permanently stained with thy glory.
Who acts: Kamalamitra, boon, I, insatiate, wife, pictures · What happens: say, be, choose, give, gaze, become · To what, where: wife, me, transitory mirrors · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Kamalamitra, boon, I, insatiate), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kamalamitra | Kamalamitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 choose | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | aux |
| 13 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 14 choose | advmod |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wife | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hills | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 hills | case |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 hills | det |
| 27 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 give | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sky | cc |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 sky | det |
| 30 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hills | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 full | punct |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 full | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 full | cop |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 choose | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 lustre | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 lustre | det |
| 37 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lustre | amod |
| 38 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | obl |
| 39 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 40 5 | punct |
| 40 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 lustre | appos |
| 41 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 40 5 | punct |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 throat | case |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 throat | nmod:poss |
| 44 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 5 | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 moon | cc |
| 46 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 moon | nmod:poss |
| 47 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lustre | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 insatiate | punct |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 insatiate | case |
| 50 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 52 insatiate | mark |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 insatiate | punct |
| 52 | insatiate | insatiate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | parataxis |
| 53 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 54 gazing | mark |
| 54 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 52 insatiate | acl |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 thee | case |
| 56 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 54 gazing | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 become | punct |
| 58 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 become | nsubj |
| 59 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 become | aux |
| 60 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 choose | parataxis |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 mirrors | punct |
| 62 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 mirrors | advmod |
| 63 | transitory | transitory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 mirrors | compound |
| 64 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 become | xcomp |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 stained | punct |
| 66 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 69 stained | cc |
| 67 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 69 stained | nsubj |
| 68 | permanently | permanently | ADV | _ | 69 stained | advmod |
| 69 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 72 glory | case |
| 71 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 72 glory | nmod:poss |
| 72 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 stained | obl |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kamalamitra | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | present | boon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | must | I | absolutely property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | I not said here | a wife and a wife and a wife's eyes's eyes | me | then | like this hills and this sky | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wife=Theme | |
| 5 | is | shall | of the dusky lustre and thy moon; insatiate parataxis; full property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | gaze | gerund | insatiate not said here | at thee | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thou=Theme | ||||
| 7 | become | past · perfect | wife | transitory mirrors | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | stain | past | pictures | with thy glory; permanently property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glory=Theme | ||||
| 9 | glory | thy | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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