The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 20

Because of old a cow could be killed _only_ for a guest of great honour, a word of the most horrible signification actually acquired one honourable meaning, i.e. a guest of a high order.

Who acts: word · What happens: kill, acquire, word · To what, where: old cow, one honourable meaning, horrible signification

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	8 killed	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Because	fixed
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	nsubj:pass
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 killed	aux:pass
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 acquired	advcl
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 killed	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 _	advmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 killed	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 guest	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 guest	det
14	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 acquired	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 honour	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 honour	amod
17	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guest	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 acquired	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 signification	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 signification	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 horrible	advmod
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 signification	amod
25	signification	signification	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 word	nmod
26	actually	actually	ADV	_	27 acquired	advmod
27	acquired	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 meaning	nummod
29	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 meaning	amod
30	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 acquired	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 guest	punct
32	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	34 guest	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 guest	det
34	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meaning	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 order	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 order	det
37	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 order	amod
38	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 guest	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 acquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	could · passive		a old cow		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	acquire	past	a word of the horrible signification	one honourable meaning and a guest of a high order	for a guest of great honour; actually property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme for guest=Asset
3	word			the horrible signification		nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 20