The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 81
Then that old Rishi, overcome by her beauty, yielded to the temptation, and had by her a daughter.
What happens: overcome, yield, have · To what, where: old Rishi, beauty, daughter
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Rishi | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Rishi | nsubj |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rishi | amod |
| 4 | Rishi | Rishi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 overcome | punct |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Rishi | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overcome | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yielded | punct |
| 11 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 beauty | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 temptation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 temptation | det |
| 14 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yielded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overcome | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rishi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | participle | old Rishi that not said here | by Rishi's beauty | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | yield | participle | Rishi's beauty not said here | to the temptation | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to temptation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a daughter | by Rishi | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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