The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 83
Descend now, ye guilty ones, into mortal wombs, and suffer in the lower world the pangs of separation, till ye have purged away your guilt in the fire of human sorrow.
Who acts: you, ye · What happens: descend, one, suffer, purge away, fire · To what, where: mortal wombs, lower world, ye, fire, human sorrow
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 (you, ye), 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 | Descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Descend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 ones | nsubj |
| 5 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Descend | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wombs | punct |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wombs | case |
| 9 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wombs | amod |
| 10 | wombs | womb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Descend | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffer | cc |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Descend | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pangs | det |
| 19 | pangs | pang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 world | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 separation | case |
| 21 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pangs | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 purged | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 purged | mark |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 purged | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 purged | aux |
| 26 | purged | purge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 suffer | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 purged | advmod |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 guilt | nmod:poss |
| 29 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 purged | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 fire | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 purged | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 sorrow | case |
| 34 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sorrow | amod |
| 35 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fire | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | imperative | you not said here | mortal wombs | now | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into womb=Location | |||
| 2 | one | ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | suffer | present | you not said here | the lower world | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | purge away | present · perfect · passive | ye | the fire of human sorrow | your guilt obj; away property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fire | human sorrow | nom fire «event 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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