The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 53
For I burn to convict that foolish sceptic of his folly, by ocular demonstration.
Who acts: I · What happens: burn, convict · To what, where: foolish sceptic
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 (I), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 burn | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 convict | mark |
| 5 | convict | convict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 burn | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sceptic | mark |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sceptic | amod |
| 8 | sceptic | sceptic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 convict | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 folly | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 folly | nmod:poss |
| 11 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sceptic | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 demonstration | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 demonstration | case |
| 14 | ocular | ocular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 demonstration | amod |
| 15 | demonstration | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 convict | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | convict | to-infinitive | I not said here | foolish sceptic of Anushayiní's folly | by ocular demonstration | tree rules |
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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