The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 62
Alas! where beauty, and curiosity, and youth, and self-will, and intoxication combine, like a mad elephant, where is the cotton thread of self-control?
What happens: be · To what, where: cotton thread
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: 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 3 where | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 where | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curiosity | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 curiosity | cc |
| 7 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beauty | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youth | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 youth | cc |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beauty | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 will | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 will | cc |
| 13 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 will | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 self | punct |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 combine | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 combine | cc |
| 18 | intoxication | intoxication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 combine | compound |
| 19 | combine | combine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beauty | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 elephant | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 elephant | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 elephant | det |
| 23 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 elephant | amod |
| 24 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 combine | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thread | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 thread | advmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thread | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thread | det |
| 29 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thread | compound |
| 30 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 elephant | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 control | case |
| 32 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 control | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 self | punct |
| 34 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thread | nmod |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cotton thread | of self control | 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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