The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 2

Only consent, and I will efface by my devotion the memory of thy husband, as the sun dries up a shallow pool.

Who acts: you, I, sun, my · What happens: consent, efface, dry up, devote · To what, where: memory, shallow pool

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, sun, my), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 consent	advmod
2	consent	consent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 efface	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 efface	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 efface	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 efface	aux
7	efface	efface	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 consent	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 devotion	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 devotion	nmod:poss
10	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 efface	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 memory	det
12	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 efface	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 husband	case
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 memory	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dries	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 dries	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dries	nsubj
20	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 efface	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 dries	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pool	det
23	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pool	amod
24	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dries	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consent	imperative	you not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	efface	future	I	the memory of thy husband	by my devotion	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
3	dry up	present	the sun	a shallow pool		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pool=Result
4	devote		my			nom devotion «feeling 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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 2