The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 4

And we worship the ever victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants, whose fierce glare consumes the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles, as a forest fire shrivels the blades of dry grass_[1].

Who acts: we, fierce glare, forest fire · What happens: worship, consume, oppose, shrivel · To what, where: victorious trunk, innumerable hosts, blades

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 (we, fierce glare, forest fire), 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 worship	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 worship	nsubj
3	worship	worship	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 victorious	advmod
6	victorious	victorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trunk	amod
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worship	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Elephant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elephant	det
10	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trunk	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Elephants	case
12	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Elephant	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consumes	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 glare	nmod:poss
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glare	amod
16	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 consumes	nsubj
17	consumes	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worship	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hosts	det
19	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hosts	amod
20	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 consumes	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 obstacles	case
22	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 obstacles	amod
23	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hosts	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shrivels	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 shrivels	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fire	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fire	compound
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrivels	nsubj
29	shrivels	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 consumes	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blades	det
31	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shrivels	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 grass	case
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grass	amod
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 blades	nmod
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 shrivels	punct
36	[	[	PUNCT	_	37 1	punct
37	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 shrivels	flat
38	]	]	PUNCT	_	37 1	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worship	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	worship	present	we	the victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunk=Stimulus
2	consume	present	fierce glare	the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Asset
3	oppose	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	shrivel	present	a forest fire	the blades of dry grass	1 flat	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blade=Patient

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 4

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 4