The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 80
And the gods, being jealous of his austerities, sent to interrupt his devotions a heavenly nymph.
Who acts: gods, austerities, Rákshasa · What happens: be, send, interrupt, devote · To what, where: austerities, devotions
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 (gods, austerities, Rákshasa), 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 | _ | 6 jealous | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gods | det |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jealous | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gods | punct |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 jealous | cop |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 austerities | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 austerities | nmod:poss |
| 9 | austerities | austerity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jealous | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 austerities | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 interrupt | mark |
| 13 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 interrupt | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nymph | det |
| 17 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nymph | amod |
| 18 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interrupt | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the gods | of Rákshasa's austerities; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | participle | Rákshasa's austerities not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | interrupt | to-infinitive | Rákshasa's austerities not said here | Rákshasa's devotions | a heavenly nymph obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | devote | Rákshasa | nom devotion «feeling 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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