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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 mountainous | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mountainous | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 S. | case |
| 7 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 legend | nmod |
| 8 | Antony | Antony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 S. | flat |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 mountainous | cop |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 mountainous | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 echo | det |
| 12 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 echo | amod |
| 13 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mountainous | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stories | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stories | det |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 echo | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nymphs | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 nymphs | det |
| 19 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stories | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whom | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 nymphs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 23 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gods | amod |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 whom | nsubj |
| 25 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 gods | acl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 weapons | case |
| 27 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 employed | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 destroy | mark |
| 29 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 employed | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 virtue | det |
| 31 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 destroy | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sages | case |
| 33 | sages | sage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 virtue | nmod |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 asceticism | nmod:poss |
| 35 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 asceticism | amod |
| 36 | asceticism | asceticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 becoming | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 becoming | aux |
| 38 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 sages | acl:relcl |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 mountainous | punct |
| 40 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 mountainous | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dangerous | cc |
| 43 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mountainous | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 mountainous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | participle | the jealous gods not said here | as weapons | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as weapon=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive | the virtue of sages | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient | |||||
| 3 | accumulate | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | become | past · progressive | accumulated asceticism | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | present | 14 | the legend of S. nsubj; a western echo of the stories of this nymphs the stories of this nymphs nsubj; mountainous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | 14 not said here | tree 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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