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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 121

[14] The legend of S. Antony is but a western echo of the stories of these nymphs, whom the jealous gods employed as weapons to destroy the virtue of sages whose accumulated asceticism was becoming _mountainous_ and dangerous.

Who acts: accumulated asceticism, 14 · What happens: employ, destroy, accumulate, become, be · To what, where: jealous gods, virtue

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 (accumulated asceticism, 14), 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

punctnsubjpunctdetnsubjcasenmodflatcopccdetamodnsubjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctacl:relcldetamodnsubjaclcaseoblmarkadvcldetobjcasenmodnmod:possamodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctpunctccconjpunctroot[PUNCT14NUM]PUNCTTheDETlegendNOUNofADPS.PROPNAntonyPROPNisAUXbutCCONJaDETwesternADJechoNOUNofADPtheDETstoriesNOUNofADPtheseDETnymphsNOUN,PUNCTwhomPRONtheDETjealousADJgodsNOUNemployedVERBasADPweaponsNOUNtoPARTdestroyVERBtheDETvirtueNOUNofADPsagesNOUNwhosePRONaccumulatedVERBasceticismNOUNwasAUXbecomingVERB_PUNCTmountainousADJ_PUNCTandCCONJdangerousADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 14punct
21414NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card40 mountainousnsubj
3]]PUNCT_2 14punct
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 legenddet
5legendlegendNOUNNumber=Sing40 mountainousnsubj
6ofofADP_7 S.case
7S.S.PROPNNumber=Sing5 legendnmod
8AntonyAntonyPROPNNumber=Sing7 S.flat
9isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 mountainouscop
10butbutCCONJ_40 mountainouscc
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 echodet
12westernwesternADJDegree=Pos13 echoamod
13echoechoNOUNNumber=Sing40 mountainousnsubj
14ofofADP_16 storiescase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 storiesdet
16storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur13 echonmod
17ofofADP_19 nymphscase
18thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem19 nymphsdet
19nymphsnymphNOUNNumber=Plur16 storiesnmod
20,,PUNCT_21 whompunct
21whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel19 nymphsacl:relcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 godsdet
23jealousjealousADJDegree=Pos24 godsamod
24godsgodNOUNNumber=Plur21 whomnsubj
25employedemployVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 godsacl
26asasADP_27 weaponscase
27weaponsweaponNOUNNumber=Plur25 employedobl
28totoPART_29 destroymark
29destroydestroyVERBVerbForm=Inf25 employedadvcl
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 virtuedet
31virtuevirtueNOUNNumber=Sing29 destroyobj
32ofofADP_33 sagescase
33sagessageNOUNNumber=Plur31 virtuenmod
34whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel36 asceticismnmod:poss
35accumulatedaccumulateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass36 asceticismamod
36asceticismasceticismNOUNNumber=Sing38 becomingnsubj
37wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 becomingaux
38becomingbecomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 sagesacl:relcl
39__PUNCT_40 mountainouspunct
40mountainousmountainousADJDegree=Posrootroot
41__PUNCT_40 mountainouspunct
42andandCCONJ_43 dangerouscc
43dangerousdangerousADJDegree=Pos40 mountainousconj
44..PUNCT_40 mountainouspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1employparticiplethe jealous gods not said hereas weaponsvn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as weapon=Attribute
2destroyto-infinitivethe virtue of sagesvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient
3accumulateparticiplevn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4becomepast · progressiveaccumulated asceticismvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5ispresent14the legend of S. nsubj; a western echo of the stories of this nymphs the stories of this nymphs nsubj; mountainous propertytree rules
6be14 not said heretree rules

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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