The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 13
And surely this is no mere mortal maiden, but rather some deity, or portion of a deity, smitten by a curse, and doomed thereby to descend for a period into this lower world, to expiate awhile sins committed in a former birth.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, smite, doom, descend, expiate, sin · To what, where: mere mortal maiden, lower world, former birth
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | _ | 8 maiden | cc |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 maiden | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 maiden | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 maiden | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 maiden | det |
| 6 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 7 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deity | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 deity | cc |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 deity | advmod |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 deity | det |
| 13 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 portion | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 portion | cc |
| 16 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deity | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 deity | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deity | det |
| 19 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 portion | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 smitten | punct |
| 21 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 deity | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 curse | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 curse | det |
| 24 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smitten | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 doomed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 doomed | cc |
| 27 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 maiden | conj |
| 28 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 27 doomed | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 descend | mark |
| 30 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 doomed | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 period | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 period | det |
| 33 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 descend | obl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 world | det |
| 36 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 world | amod |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 descend | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 expiate | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 expiate | mark |
| 40 | expiate | expiate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 descend | conj |
| 41 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 42 sins | advmod |
| 42 | sins | sin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 expiate | ccomp |
| 43 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 sins | xcomp |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 birth | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 birth | det |
| 46 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 birth | amod |
| 47 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 committed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | no mere mortal maiden | some deity or portion of a deity parataxis; surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smite | participle | this not said here | by a curse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | doom | participle | this not said here | thereby property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | descend | to-infinitive | this not said here | this lower world | for a period | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Location | |||
| 5 | expiate | to-infinitive | this not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sin | present | this not said here | awhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | commit | participle | this not said here | a former birth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in birth=Destination |
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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