The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 52
For they fell under a curse, and so became mortals: but when they meet here, and the circumstances are favourable, their curse will have an end.
Who acts: lamentations, circumstances, curse · What happens: fall, become, meet, be, have, curse · To what, where: curse, mortals, end
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamentations, circumstances, curse), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 fell | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 curse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 curse | det |
| 6 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 became | advmod |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 11 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | advcl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 meet | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 favourable | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 favourable | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 circumstances | det |
| 21 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 favourable | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 favourable | cop |
| 23 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meet | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meet | punct |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 curse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | lamentations = lamentation | a curse | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under curse=Location | ||||
| 2 | become | past | lamentations = lamentation not said here | mortals | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | lamentations = lamentation | here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the circumstances | favourable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | future | lamentations's curse | a end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 6 | curse | lamentations = lamentation | nom curse «communication 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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