The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 94

[13] A case, perhaps, not absolutely unknown in the west: though beauty, like a fortress, must always like to be flattered by a siege.

Who acts: 13, beauty, siege · What happens: case, like, flatter

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 (13, beauty, siege), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 case	punct
2	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 case	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 case	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unknown	punct
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 unknown	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unknown	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 unknown	advmod
10	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	11 unknown	advmod
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 case	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 west	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 west	det
14	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unknown	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 beauty	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 beauty	mark
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fortress	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 fortress	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fortress	det
21	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beauty	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beauty	punct
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 like	aux
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 like	advmod
25	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	28 flattered	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 flattered	aux:pass
28	flattered	flatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 like	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 siege	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 siege	det
31	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flattered	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	case		13		tree rules
2	like	must	beauty and a fortress	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	flatter not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a siege		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 94

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 94