The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 102

[3] Because, though Shiwa drank the _kálakuta_ or deadly sea-poison, with impunity, still it left its mark on his throat, and dyed it blue.

Who acts: Shiwa, impunity · What happens: drink, leave, dye, mark · To what, where: 3, mark, throat, impunity

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shiwa, impunity), 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	_	2 3	punct
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 drank	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
4	Because	because	SCONJ	_	2 3	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drank	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 drank	mark
7	Shiwa	Shiwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drank	nsubj
8	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kálakuta	det
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 kálakuta	punct
11	kálakuta	kálakuta	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drank	obj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 kálakuta	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 poison	cc
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poison	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poison	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kálakuta	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 impunity	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 impunity	case
20	impunity	impunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kálakuta	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drank	conj
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mark	nmod:poss
26	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 throat	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throat	nmod:poss
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dyed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dyed	cc
32	dyed	dye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drank	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dyed	obj
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dyed	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Shiwa	3			the kálakuta or deadly sea poison and impunity obj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kálakuta=Patient
2	leave	past	impunity	impunity's mark	Shiwa's throat	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on throat=Location
3	dye	past	Shiwa not said here	impunity			blue property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	mark		impunity					nom mark «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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 102