The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 89

But Maheshwara, from his seat on Kailás, saw them go, for as fate would have it, he chanced to be looking in that direction.

Who acts: Maheshwara, others, fate · What happens: see, go, have, chance, look · To what, where: others, seat

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 (Maheshwara, others, fate), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
2	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seat	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 seat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 seat	nmod:poss
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Maheshwara	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Kailás	case
8	Kailás	Kailás	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Maheshwara	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chanced	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chanced	nsubj
22	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 looking	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 looking	aux
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 chanced	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 direction	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 direction	det
28	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Maheshwara	others = other		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	others = other not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	would	fate	seat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	chance	past	fate			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive · progressive	fate not said here		in that direction	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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 89

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 89