The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 125
[17] Whose true head was cut off and replaced by that of a ram.
What happens: cut off, replace · To what, where: true head
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: 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 17 | punct |
| 2 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 cut | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 4 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | aux:pass |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 replaced | cc |
| 11 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cut | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 replaced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ram | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ram | det |
| 16 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · passive | true head | 17 obl | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | replace | participle | by that of a ram | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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