The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 28
17[2]), '_Three steps did Wishnu stride: thrice did he set down his foot.
Who acts: Three steps, epithet · What happens: do, set down · To what, where: Wishnu stride, thrice, 17
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three steps, epithet), 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 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 2 | punct |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 17 | flat |
| 4 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 17 | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 17 | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 17 | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 17 | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 steps | nummod |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 17 | parataxis |
| 12 | Wishnu | Wishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stride | compound |
| 13 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrice | punct |
| 15 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stride | acl:relcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 foot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 17 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Three steps | Wishnu stride | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | set down | past · do-support | epithet | thrice | epithet's foot obj | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |
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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