The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 56
Then all joined furiously in the festival of his favour, seized with the madness born of devotion, uttering ecstatic hymns of praise, each in his own language.
Who acts: curse, praise · What happens: join, seize, bear, utter, favour, hymn · To what, where: all, festival, favour, madness, ecstatic hymns
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 (curse, praise), 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 | 3 joined | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 3 joined | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 festival | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 festival | det |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 favour | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 favour | nmod:poss |
| 10 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 festival | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 favour | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 madness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 madness | det |
| 15 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obl |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 madness | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 devotion | case |
| 18 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 uttering | punct |
| 20 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 joined | advcl |
| 21 | ecstatic | ecstatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hymns | amod |
| 22 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 uttering | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 praise | case |
| 24 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hymns | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 each | punct |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 uttering | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 language | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 language | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 language | amod |
| 30 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 each | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | participle · passive | all | the festival of curse's favour | then | furiously property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | seize | participle | curse's favour not said here | with the madness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | the madness not said here | of devotion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | gerund | ecstatic hymns of praise | each in curse's own language obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hymn=Topic | ||||
| 5 | favour | curse | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | hymn | praise | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=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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