The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 84

Then hearing the doom of separation, wild with grief they fell at his feet, and implored him, saying: Fix at least a term to the curse, and a period to our pain.

Who acts: Ascetics, our · What happens: hear, fall, implore, say, fix, doom · To what, where: doom, grief, feet, fire, term, least · 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 (Ascetics, our), 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	2 hearing	advmod
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doom	det
4	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 separation	case
6	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doom	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 separation	amod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 grief	case
10	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grief	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 implored	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 implored	cc
18	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hearing	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 implored	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 implored	advcl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Fix	punct
23	Fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saying	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 term	nmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 term	det
27	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Fix	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 curse	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 curse	det
30	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Fix	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 period	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 period	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 period	det
34	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 pain	case
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 pain	nmod:poss
37	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 period	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		the doom of separation			then	a period to our pain obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus
2	fall	past	Ascetics = ascetic	grief not said here		fire's feet			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient grief=Result
3	implore	past			fire				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	fix	infinitive		a term		least		to the curse	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent term=Patient to curse=Co-Patient
6	doom			separation					nom doom «event transitive»: of=patient
7	pain		our						nom pain «state 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 84