The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 66

And she would have despised him, for his rags and his nakedness, and yet for all that she would, she could not, but felt herself drawn towards him against her will.

Who acts: lion · What happens: despise, feel, draw · To what, where: lion

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 (lion), 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	_	5 despised	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 despised	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 despised	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 despised	aux
5	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 despised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rags	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 rags	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rags	nmod:poss
10	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 despised	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nakedness	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nakedness	nmod:poss
13	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rags	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 would	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 would	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 would	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 that	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 that	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 would	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 would	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 despised	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 would	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 would	conj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 could	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 felt	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 felt	cc
28	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despised	conj
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 felt	obj
30	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 felt	xcomp
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drawn	obl
33	against	against	ADP	_	35 will	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 will	nmod:poss
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 drawn	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	despise	would · perfect · passive		lion	for King's rags and King's nakedness; King obj	tree rules
2	feel	past		lion		tree rules
3	draw	participle	lion not said here		towards King	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards he=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 66