The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 7

And there he remained, living at first upon leaves, and then upon smoke, and finally upon air, performing penances of appalling severity, till after a hundred years[4] that Lord of Creatures was moved to compassion.

Who acts: fire, air, penances · What happens: remain, live, perform, appal, move, compassion · To what, where: smoke, penances, severity, Lord

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, air, penances), 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	_	4 remained	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 remained	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 living	punct
6	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 remained	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 living	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 living	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smoke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smoke	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 smoke	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 smoke	case
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 performing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 performing	cc
18	finally	finally	ADV	_	20 air	advmod
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 air	case
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 performing	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 performing	punct
22	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 remained	advcl
23	penances	penance	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 performing	obj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 appalling	mark
25	appalling	appal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 penances	acl
26	severity	severity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appalling	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 years	punct
28	till	till	ADP	_	32 years	case
29	after	after	ADP	_	32 years	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 years	det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 performing	obl
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	34 4	punct
34	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 years	appos
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 4	punct
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 Lord	det
37	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 moved	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Creatures	case
39	Creatures	Creatures	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Lord	nmod
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 moved	aux:pass
41	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 performing	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 compassion	mark
43	compassion	compassion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 moved	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	fire		smoke; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon smoke=Location
2	live	gerund	fire not said here				upon leaves	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location
3	perform	gerund	air	penances		year		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Theme
4	appal	gerund	penances not said here	severity				tree rules
5	move	past · passive		that Lord of Creatures				tree rules
6	compassion	to-infinitive						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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 7

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 7