The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 96
For again the forgotten ties of her former birth fought for utterance in her soul, and yet she feared him for his insolence, and despised him for his poverty: for he was ten times leaner and more ragged than before.
Who acts: forgotten ties, Shrí, beat · What happens: forget, fight, fear, despise, be · To what, where: beat
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forgotten ties, Shrí, beat), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 again | case |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 fought | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ties | det |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ties | amod |
| 5 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 birth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birth | amod |
| 9 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ties | nmod |
| 10 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 utterance | case |
| 12 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fought | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 utterance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feared | cc |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 feared | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feared | nsubj |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fought | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feared | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 insolence | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 insolence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feared | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 despised | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 despised | cc |
| 27 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fought | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 despised | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 poverty | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 despised | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 leaner | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 leaner | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 leaner | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 leaner | cop |
| 36 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 times | nummod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 leaner | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | leaner | lean | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 despised | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ragged | cc |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 ragged | advmod |
| 41 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 leaner | conj |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 before | case |
| 43 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 ragged | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | the forgotten ties of Shrí's former birth | for utterance in Shrí's soul | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | Shrí | beat | yet | for beat's insolence | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus for insolence=Attribute | ||
| 4 | despise | past | beat | for beat's poverty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus for poverty=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | past | beat | time | lean property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | beat not said here | tree rules |
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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