The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 6

And he turned his back on the pleasures of the senses, and went afar off, and dwelt alone, among the icy peaks and snowy plateaux that lie around Kailás.

Who acts: fire, icy peaks · What happens: turn, go, dwell, lie, please · To what, where: back, pleasures, icy peaks, Kailás, senses

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 (fire, icy peaks), 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 turned	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pleasures	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pleasures	det
8	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 senses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 senses	det
11	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pleasures	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
15	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 afar	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dwelt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dwelt	cc
19	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 dwelt	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peaks	punct
22	among	among	ADP	_	25 peaks	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 peaks	det
24	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 peaks	amod
25	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dwelt	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 plateaux	cc
27	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plateaux	amod
28	plateaux	plateaux	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peaks	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lie	nsubj
30	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 peaks	acl:relcl
31	around	around	ADP	_	32 Kailás	case
32	Kailás	Kailás	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 lie	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	fire	fire's back	the pleasures of the senses		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	go	past	fire not said here			afar property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dwell	past	fire not said here		the icy peaks and snowy plateaux	alone property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among peak=Location
4	lie	present	the icy peaks and snowy plateaux		Kailás		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around kailás=Location
5	please			the senses			nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=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 6

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 6