The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 77
Metempsychosis, transmigration, everlasting incarnation and re-incarnation of the immortal soul in body after body, birth after birth: all Hindoo literature is but the kaleidoscopic reiteration of this one identical idea, whose beauty is such that no logic will ever destroy it or oust it in favour of another.
Who acts: Hindoo literature, beauty, logic · What happens: be, destroy, oust · To what, where: kaleidoscopic reiteration, beauty, favour, Metempsychosis
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 (Hindoo literature, beauty, logic), 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 | Metempsychosis | metempsychosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 transmigration | punct |
| 3 | transmigration | transmigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Metempsychosis | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 incarnation | punct |
| 5 | everlasting | everlasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incarnation | compound |
| 6 | incarnation | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Metempsychosis | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 re-incarnation | cc |
| 8 | re-incarnation | re-incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Metempsychosis | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 soul | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 11 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soul | amod |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 re-incarnation | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soul | nmod |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 birth | punct |
| 18 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Metempsychosis | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 birth | case |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 birth | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 reiteration | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 literature | det |
| 23 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 literature | compound |
| 24 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reiteration | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 reiteration | cop |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 reiteration | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 reiteration | det |
| 28 | kaleidoscopic | kaleidoscopic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 reiteration | amod |
| 29 | reiteration | reiteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Metempsychosis | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 idea | case |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 idea | nsubj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 idea | nummod |
| 33 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 idea | amod |
| 34 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reiteration | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 such | punct |
| 36 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 37 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 37 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 such | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 such | cop |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 34 idea | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 destroy | mark |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 logic | det |
| 42 | logic | logic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 destroy | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 destroy | aux |
| 44 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 destroy | advmod |
| 45 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 such | advcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 destroy | obj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 oust | cc |
| 48 | oust | oust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 destroy | conj |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 oust | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 favour | case |
| 51 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 oust | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 another | case |
| 53 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 favour | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Metempsychosis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all Hindoo literature | the kaleidoscopic reiteration | of one identical idea this | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | beauty | such property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | future | no logic | beauty | ever | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | oust | infinitive | no logic not said here | beauty | favour of another | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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