The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 82

Then as they stood together, the old ascetic spoke and cursed them, saying slowly: Irreverent lovers, now shall that beauty which occasioned this insolence meet with its appropriate reward.

Who acts: arms, old ascetic, beauty, meet · What happens: stand together, speak, curse, say, occasion, reward · To what, where: Irreverent lovers, arms, insolence meet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (arms, old ascetic, beauty, meet), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoke	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ascetic	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ascetic	amod
9	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoke	nsubj
10	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cursed	cc
12	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cursed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cursed	advcl
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 saying	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 lovers	punct
18	Irreverent	irreverent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lovers	amod
19	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beauty	punct
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 beauty	advmod
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 beauty	aux
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 beauty	det
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lovers	appos
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 occasioned	nsubj
26	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beauty	acl:relcl
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 meet	det
28	insolence	insolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meet	compound
29	meet	meet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 occasioned	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 reward	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 reward	nmod:poss
32	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 reward	amod
33	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 occasioned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand together	past	arms = arm	Irreverent lovers	then	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	the old ascetic				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	curse	past	arms = arm not said here	arms = arm			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	arms = arm not said here			slowly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	occasion	past	that beauty	this insolence meet		with meet's appropriate reward	tree rules
6	reward		meet				nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 82