The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 34

_Lux in tenebris_: a dazzling light, in the most profound darkness: the night of the sun: a heavenly body, doomed to put on mortality and suffer for a period in this lower world of darkness, birth and death: in some such ways as these we may express its central idea.

Who acts: heavenly body · What happens: doom, put, suffer, express · To what, where: mortality, lower world, central idea, Lux

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 (heavenly body), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Lux	punct
2	Lux	Lux	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 tenebris	case
4	tenebris	tenebris	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lux	nmod
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Lux	punct
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 light	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
8	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	compound
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lux	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 darkness	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 darkness	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 profound	advmod
14	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 darkness	amod
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 night	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 express	obl:unmarked
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 night	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 body	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 body	det
24	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 body	amod
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 express	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 doomed	punct
27	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 body	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 put	mark
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 doomed	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 mortality	case
31	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 suffer	cc
33	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 put	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 period	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 period	det
36	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 suffer	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 world	det
39	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 world	amod
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 suffer	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 darkness	case
42	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 world	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 birth	punct
44	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 world	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 death	cc
46	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 world	conj
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 ways	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 ways	case
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	51 ways	det
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ways	amod
51	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 express	nsubj
52	as	as	ADP	_	53 these	case
53	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	51 ways	nmod
54	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 express	nsubj
55	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 express	aux
56	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 darkness	acl:relcl
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 idea	nmod:poss
58	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 idea	amod
59	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 express	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lux	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doom	participle	a heavenly body not said here					tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	a heavenly body not said here		mortality			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on mortality=Destination
3	suffer	infinitive	a heavenly body not said here		this lower world of darkness and birth and death		for a period	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	express	may	a heavenly body	body's central idea		night	some such ways as these nsubj; we nsubj	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme

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, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 34