The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 51

For here in Poona it is now, as it was of old in the days of Homer, [Greek: aieì dè puraì nekúon kaíonto thameiaí ....]

Who acts: owner · What happens: be · To what, where: Poona

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 (owner), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 here	case
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 Greek	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Poona	case
4	Poona	Poona	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 here	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 here	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 old	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 old	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 old	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 here	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 days	det
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 old	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Homer	case
18	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 days	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Greek	punct
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 Greek	punct
21	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 aieì	punct
23	aieì	aieì	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Greek	conj
24	dè	dè	X	Foreign=Yes	23 aieì	dep
25	puraì	puraì	X	Foreign=Yes	23 aieì	conj
26	nekúon	nekúon	X	Foreign=Yes	25 puraì	flat:foreign
27	kaíonto	kaíonto	X	Foreign=Yes	25 puraì	flat:foreign
28	thameiaí	thameiaí	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 aieì	conj
29	....	....	PUNCT	_	21 Greek	punct
30	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 Greek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	owner			Poona	now	here property	tree rules
2	is	past	owner				day	old property	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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Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 51