The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 31

A single long piece of stuff, wound like a petticoat round the waist, secured, and thrown over the head to form a veil, forms a garment that the Greeks might have envied.

Who acts: single long piece, Greeks · What happens: secure, throw, form, envy · To what, where: head, veil, garment

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 (single long piece, Greeks), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 piece	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 piece	amod
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forms	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stuff	case
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wound	punct
8	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 petticoat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 petticoat	det
11	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wound	nmod
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 waist	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 waist	det
14	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 petticoat	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 secured	punct
16	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 piece	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thrown	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thrown	cc
19	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 secured	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 head	det
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thrown	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 form	mark
24	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thrown	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 veil	det
26	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 form	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 piece	punct
28	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 garment	det
30	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forms	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 envied	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Greeks	det
33	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 envied	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 envied	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 envied	aux
36	envied	envy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 garment	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 forms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	secure	participle				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	throw	participle			the head	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over head=Destination
3	form	to-infinitive		a veil		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location veil=Theme
4	form	present	a single long piece of stuff and wound like a petticoat round the waist	a garment		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme
5	envy	might · perfect	the Greeks			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 31