The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 57
So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those adorers the nectar of his presence, that Lord whose left half is his wife remembered his promise to the Daughter of the Mountain, and returned to the snowy peak of Kailàs, to tell her the story and coax away her sulks.
Who acts: curse, sported wife, wife · What happens: sport, bestow, leave, be, remember, return · To what, where: nectar, adorers, sported wife, promise, story, sulks · 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 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, sported wife, wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 sported | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 sported | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 sported | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sported | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sported | aux |
| 6 | sported | sport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 wife | amod |
| 7 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 6 sported | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bestowed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bestowed | cc |
| 10 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sported | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 adorers | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 adorers | det |
| 13 | adorers | adorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bestowed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nectar | det |
| 15 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestowed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 presence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nectar | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lord | punct |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Lord | det |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bestowed | obl |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 half | nmod:poss |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 half | amod |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 Lord | appos |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wife | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remembered | nsubj |
| 28 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 promise | nmod:poss |
| 30 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remembered | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Daughter | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Daughter | det |
| 33 | Daughter | Daughter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 promise | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Mountain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Mountain | det |
| 36 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Daughter | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 returned | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 returned | cc |
| 39 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 remembered | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 peak | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 peak | det |
| 42 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 peak | amod |
| 43 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 returned | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Kailàs | case |
| 45 | Kailàs | Kailàs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 peak | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 tell | punct |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 tell | mark |
| 48 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 remembered | parataxis |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 tell | iobj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 story | det |
| 51 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 tell | obj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 coax | cc |
| 53 | coax | coax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 story | conj |
| 54 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 tell | advmod |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 sulks | nmod:poss |
| 56 | sulks | sulk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 tell | iobj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sport | past · perfect | curse | sufficiently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bestow | participle | curse not said here | the nectar of curse's presence | that adorers | that Lord obl | tree rules | ||
| 3 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | curse's sported wife | curse nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | remember | past | curse's sported wife | curse's promise | to the Daughter of the Mountain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent promise=Theme to daughter=be' | |||
| 6 | return | past | curse's sported wife not said here | to the snowy peak of Kailàs result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to peak=Result | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the story and coax | wife's sulks | wife iobj; away property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | promise | curse | to the Daughter of the Mountain | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 9 | sulk | wife | nom sulk «feeling intransitive»: 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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