The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 49

For who ever saw her equal in beauty, or who ever heard of a maiden objecting to be married[13]?

What happens: see, hear, object, marry · To what, where: equal, beauty, 13

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: 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saw	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 equal	nmod:poss
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 beauty	case
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 heard	advmod
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
17	objecting	object	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 heard	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 married	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 married	aux:pass
20	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 objecting	xcomp
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	22 13	punct
22	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 married	obl
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	22 13	punct
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	daughter's equal	beauty	ever	who nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer equal=Stimulus
2	hear	past			ever	of a maiden; who nsubj	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	object speech: other	gerund					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	to-infinitive · passive	13				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 49