The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 31

This is the inverted Race, or Cycle of the Sun, which so much exercised the mind of primitive man, and seemed to be a symbol of the mystery of Birth and Death.

Who acts: This, inverted Race · What happens: invert, be, exercise, seem, mind · To what, where: inverted Race, mind, symbol, primitive man

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 (This, inverted Race), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Race	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Race	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Race	det
4	inverted	invert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Race	amod
5	Race	Race	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 exercised	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Cycle	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 Cycle	cc
8	Cycle	Cycle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Race	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cycle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 exercised	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 exercised	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 exercised	advmod
16	exercised	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mind	det
18	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exercised	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
20	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mind	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 exercised	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	28 symbol	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 symbol	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 symbol	det
28	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mystery	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mystery	det
31	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 symbol	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Birth	case
33	Birth	Birth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mystery	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Death	cc
35	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Birth	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 exercised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invert	participle				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	This	the inverted Race or Cycle of the Sun	Cycle of the Sun conj	tree rules
3	exercise	past	the inverted Race or Cycle of the Sun	the mind of primitive man	which obj	tree rules
4	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		a symbol	of the mystery of Birth and Death	tree rules
6	mind			primitive man		nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 31