The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 120
Love's sacred fire met in this case, for once, with an element more potent than his own.
Who acts: sacred fire, Love · What happens: meet, fire · To what, where: case
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 (sacred fire, Love), 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 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Love | case |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fire | amod |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 case | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 case | det |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 once | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 met | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 potent | punct |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 potent | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 element | det |
| 15 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 potent | nsubj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 potent | advmod |
| 17 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 met | parataxis |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 potent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Love's sacred fire | this case | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fire | Love | nom fire «event transitive»: 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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