The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 42
Better far to be devoured by an animal, than become perforce the wife of another man.
Who acts: animal · What happens: devour, become · To what, where: perforce
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 (animal), 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 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 far | amod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 devoured | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 devoured | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 devoured | aux:pass |
| 5 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 animal | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoured | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 become | mark |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 devoured | advcl |
| 12 | perforce | perforce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 become | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 become | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 devoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | to-infinitive · passive | a animal | far property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | a animal not said here | perforce | the wife of another man xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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