The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 61
But the owl, being pleased with the temple as a place of residence, remained; and the bats paid it divine honours.
Who acts: owl, bats · What happens: be, remain, pay · To what, where: owl
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, bats), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 pleased | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pleased | cop |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 temple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temple | det |
| 9 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 temple | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 residence | case |
| 14 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 temple | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 paid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 paid | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bats | det |
| 20 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 paid | nsubj |
| 21 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 paid | obj |
| 23 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 honours | amod |
| 24 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 paid | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the owl | with the temple as a place of residence; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | the owl not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | past | the bats | owl | divine honours obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient honour=Asset |
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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