The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 38
And let not anyone suppose, that the lesson embodied in these pages is obsolete or dead in the India of to-day.
Who acts: you, anyone, lesson · What happens: let, not suppose, embody, be · To what, where: lesson, pages, India
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 (you, anyone, lesson), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suppose | advmod |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obsolete | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 obsolete | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lesson | det |
| 9 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 obsolete | nsubj |
| 10 | embodied | embody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lesson | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pages | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 pages | det |
| 13 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 embodied | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 obsolete | cop |
| 15 | obsolete | obsolete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 suppose | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 dead | cc |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 obsolete | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 India | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 India | det |
| 20 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 obsolete | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 India | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not suppose | infinitive | anyone | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | embody | participle | the lesson not said here | this pages | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the lesson | the India of day | obsolete property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | the lesson not said here | tree rules |
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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