The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 85
And he said again: When one of you shall slay the other, the curse shall end.
Who acts: fire, one, curse · What happens: say, slay, end · To what, where: other · 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 (fire, one, curse), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 slay | punct |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 slay | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 slay | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 slay | aux |
| 11 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slay | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 end | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 curse | det |
| 16 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 end | aux |
| 18 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 slay | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fire | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slay | shall | one of you | the other | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | ||||
| 3 | end | shall | the curse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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