The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 47

For hard by here, in the wood on the hillside, is an aged Sage, named Pápanáshana[16], whose austerities terrify even the gods.

Who acts: austerities · What happens: be, name, terrify · To what, where: aged Sage, wood, gods

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 (austerities), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 here	case
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 here	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 here	case
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Sage	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hillside	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hillside	det
11	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wood	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Sage	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Sage	det
15	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Sage	amod
16	Sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 named	punct
18	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Sage	acl
19	Pápanáshana	Pápanáshana	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 named	xcomp
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 16	punct
21	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 Pápanáshana	appos
22	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 16	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 terrify	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 austerities	nmod:poss
25	austerities	austerity	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 terrify	nsubj
26	terrify	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Pápanáshana	conj
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 gods	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gods	det
29	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 terrify	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a aged Sage	the wood on the hillside		tree rules
2	name	participle		a aged Sage not said here		Pápanáshana xcomp	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	terrify	present	austerities	the gods			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 47