The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 122
Like the Devil, and long before him, they baited the hook with a pretty woman.
Who acts: sages · What happens: bait · To what, where: hook
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 (sages), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 Devil | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Devil | det |
| 3 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 baited | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 him | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 him | cc |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 him | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Devil | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 him | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 baited | nsubj |
| 11 | baited | bait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hook | det |
| 13 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baited | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baited | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 baited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bait | past | sages = sage | the hook | like the Devil before Devil; with a pretty woman | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hook=Destination with woman=Theme |
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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