The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 39
And one entangles us, like Yama[10], in the nectar-nooses of her hair, while another pierces us, like Manobhawa[11] with the archery of her poisoned eyes.
Who acts: one · What happens: entangle, poison · To what, where: us
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 (one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 entangles | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 entangles | nsubj |
| 3 | entangles | entangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entangles | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yama | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Yama | case |
| 7 | Yama | Yama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entangles | obl |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 10 | punct |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Yama | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 10 | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nooses | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 nooses | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nooses | det |
| 14 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nooses | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 nectar | punct |
| 16 | nooses | noose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entangles | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nooses | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pierces | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 pierces | mark |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 pierces | det |
| 23 | pierces | pierce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nooses | conj |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pierces | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Manobhawa | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Manobhawa | case |
| 27 | Manobhawa | Manobhawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 nooses | nmod |
| 28 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 29 11 | punct |
| 29 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Manobhawa | appos |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 29 11 | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 archery | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 archery | det |
| 33 | archery | archery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Manobhawa | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 eyes | amod |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 archery | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entangles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entangle | present | one | us | like Yama; the nectar nooses of woman's hair like Manobhawa with the archery of woman's poisoned eyes and another pierces us conj | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 2 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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