The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 85

It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpretation of the _three strides_: but this is not the place to examine their views.

Who acts: that, doctors, this · What happens: observe, learn, differ, not be, examine, interpret · To what, where: Cp, place, views, three strides · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, doctors, this), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 observed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 observed	aux:pass
4	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 learned	nsubj
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	ccomp
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 differ	nsubj
8	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 interpretation	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 interpretation	det
12	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 differ	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 strides	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strides	det
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 strides	punct
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 strides	nummod
17	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 interpretation	nmod
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 strides	punct
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 place	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 place	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 place	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 place	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 place	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observed	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 examine	mark
27	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 place	acl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 views	nmod:poss
29	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 examine	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	observe	should · passive		Cp		tree rules
2	learn	past	that			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	differ	present	doctors		as the interpretation of the three strides	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	present	this	the place		tree rules
5	examine	to-infinitive		doctors's views		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme
6	interpret			the three strides		nom interpretation «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	view		doctors = doctor			nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 85