The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 98
And having completed his arrangements, he allowed the chain of events to take its course.
Who acts: Master, chain · What happens: complete, allow, take, arrange · To what, where: arrangements, chain, course
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 (Master, chain), 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 completed | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 completed | aux |
| 3 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrangements | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 completed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 allowed | nsubj |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 completed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 events | case |
| 12 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chain | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 course | nmod:poss |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | gerund · perfect | Master's arrangements | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrangement=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | allow | past | Master | the chain of events | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chain=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chain of events not said here | chain's course | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrange | Master | nom arrangement «cognition 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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