The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 115

When I was young, sings Bhartrihari, the whole world seemed to me to be made of woman (_nárimayam_).

Who acts: I, whole world · What happens: be, sing, seem, make · To what, where: Bhartrihari, me

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 (I, whole world), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 young	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sings	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sings	punct
6	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Bhartrihari	Bhartrihari	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sings	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sings	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 made	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 woman	case
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 nárimayam	punct
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 nárimayam	punct
22	nárimayam	nárimayam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woman	appos
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 nárimayam	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 nárimayam	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			young property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present		Bhartrihari			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bhartrihari=Theme
3	seem	past	the whole world		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	to-infinitive · passive	the whole world not said here			of woman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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, An Evil Eye., sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 115