The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 85
But though I will do her no injury, I will delude this wandering wife of a vile husband, till she will desire to abandon the body of her own accord.
Who acts: I, Pashupati · What happens: do, delude, wonder, desire, abandon, injure · To what, where: injury, wandering wife, body
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 (I, Pashupati), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 delude | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 delude | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 injury | nmod:poss |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 injury | det |
| 8 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 delude | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 delude | aux |
| 12 | delude | delude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 wife | det |
| 14 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delude | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 husband | det |
| 18 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 husband | amod |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 desire | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 desire | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 desire | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 desire | aux |
| 24 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 delude | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 abandon | mark |
| 26 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 desire | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 abandon | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 accord | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 accord | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 accord | amod |
| 32 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 body | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 delude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | Pashupati's injury | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | delude | future | I | this wandering wife of a vile husband | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | desire | future | Pashupati | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | abandon not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pashupati not said here | the body of Pashupati's own accord | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme body=Source | ||||
| 6 | injure | Pashupati | nom injury «state 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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