The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 82
But afterwards, repenting of his fall, he burned out his eyes with a fiery cane, saying: Perish, ye causes of perishable illusions: and so became blind.
Who acts: Rákshasa, ye · What happens: repent, burn out, say, cause, become · To what, where: eyes, Perish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rákshasa, ye), 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 | _ | 10 burned | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 repenting | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 repenting | punct |
| 4 | repenting | repent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 burned | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fall | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repenting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 repenting | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burned | nsubj |
| 10 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 burned | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burned | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cane | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cane | det |
| 16 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cane | amod |
| 17 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 burned | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Perish | punct |
| 21 | Perish | Perish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saying | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 causes | punct |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 causes | nsubj |
| 24 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Perish | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 illusions | case |
| 26 | perishable | perishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 illusions | amod |
| 27 | illusions | illusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 causes | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 became | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 became | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 became | advmod |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 burned | conj |
| 32 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 became | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repent | gerund | Rákshasa not said here | of Rákshasa's fall; afterwards property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn out | past | Rákshasa | Rákshasa's eyes | with a fiery cane | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with cane=Instrument | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Rákshasa not said here | Perish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent perish=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cause | present | ye | Perish not said here | of perishable illusions | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition perish=Patient | |||
| 5 | become | past | Rákshasa not said here | blind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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