The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 87

And they drew in that instant from each other's eyes a deep draught of the nectar of mutual contemplation, as if to sustain them in their pilgrimage over the terrible sea of separation, saying as it were to each other, but in vain[22]: Remember me!

Who acts: others · What happens: draw, sustain, say, remember · To what, where: instant, others, pilgrimage, each, me · 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 (others), 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 drew	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 instant	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 instant	det
6	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 eyes	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
10	's	's	PART	_	9 other	case
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 draught	det
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 draught	amod
14	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 nectar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nectar	det
17	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draught	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 contemplation	case
19	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 contemplation	amod
20	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nectar	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sustain	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sustain	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 sustain	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sustain	mark
25	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drew	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sustain	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pilgrimage	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
29	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sustain	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	33 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sea	amod
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sustain	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 separation	case
35	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sea	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saying	punct
37	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sustain	advcl
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 saying	obl
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 each	cop
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 each	case
42	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	37 saying	obl
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 each	fixed
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 vain	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 vain	cc
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 vain	case
47	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drew	conj
48	[	[	PUNCT	_	49 22	punct
49	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	47 vain	appos
50	]	]	PUNCT	_	49 22	punct
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 Remember	punct
52	Remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drew	conj
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 Remember	obj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	others = other			that instant	from each other eyes a deep draught of the nectar of mutual contemplation	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from eye=Co-Patient
2	sustain a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	others = other not said here	others = other		others's pilgrimage	over the terrible sea of separation	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	others = other not said here		each		as separation	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
4	remember	infinitive	others = other not said here	me				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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 87