The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 92
[_Note_.--As the story belongs, by its title, both to Sun and Moon, it should be observed, that the Night and the two Twilights, Dusk and Dawn, apply to both in opposite ways.
Who acts: story · What happens: belong, observe, apply, title · To what, where: title, story, Note
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 (story), 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 | _ | 3 Note | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Note | punct |
| 3 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Note | punct |
| 5 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 9 belongs | punct |
| 6 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 belongs | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belongs | nsubj |
| 9 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Note | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 title | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 title | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 title | nmod:poss |
| 13 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belongs | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 both | punct |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 title | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sun | case |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 title | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Moon | cc |
| 19 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sun | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 observed | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 observed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 observed | aux:pass |
| 24 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 title | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 apply | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 apply | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Night | det |
| 28 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 apply | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Twilights | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Twilights | det |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Twilights | nummod |
| 32 | Twilights | twilight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Night | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Dusk | punct |
| 34 | Dusk | Dusk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Twilights | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Dawn | cc |
| 36 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Dusk | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Night | punct |
| 38 | apply | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 observed | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ways | case |
| 40 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 43 ways | cc:preconj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 ways | case |
| 42 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ways | amod |
| 43 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 apply | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Note | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the story | story's title both | to Sun and Moon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | observe | should · passive | story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | apply | present | night | to opposite ways | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | title | story | to Sun and Moon | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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