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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 25

[1] The Hindoos have a superstition, illustrated in a previous page, that moonstones in the rays of the moon distil a sort of lunar syrup, nectar or camphor, supposed to be composed of the substance of the moon.

Who acts: Hindoos, moonstones · What happens: have, illustrate, distil, suppose, compose, ray · To what, where: superstition, previous page, sort, moon, lunar syrup

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, moonstones), 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

punctdiscoursepunctdetnsubjdetobjpunctaclcasedetamodoblpunctmarknsubjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodadvcldetobjcaseamodnmodpunctconjccconjpunctacl:relclmarkaux:passxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctroot[PUNCT1NUM]PUNCTTheDETHindoosNOUNhaveVERBaDETsuperstitionNOUN,PUNCTillustratedVERBinADPaDETpreviousADJpageNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJmoonstonesNOUNinADPtheDETraysNOUNofADPtheDETmoonNOUNdistilVERBaDETsortNOUNofADPlunarADJsyrupNOUN,PUNCTnectarNOUNorCCONJcamphorNOUN,PUNCTsupposedVERBtoPARTbeAUXcomposedVERBofADPtheDETsubstanceNOUNofADPtheDETmoonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 1punct
211NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 havediscourse
3]]PUNCT_2 1punct
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Hindoosdet
5HindooshindooNOUNNumber=Plur6 havensubj
6havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 superstitiondet
8superstitionsuperstitionNOUNNumber=Sing6 haveobj
9,,PUNCT_10 illustratedpunct
10illustratedillustrateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 superstitionacl
11ininADP_14 pagecase
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 pagedet
13previouspreviousADJDegree=Pos14 pageamod
14pagepageNOUNNumber=Sing10 illustratedobl
15,,PUNCT_24 distilpunct
16thatthatSCONJ_24 distilmark
17moonstonesmoonstoneNOUNNumber=Plur24 distilnsubj
18ininADP_20 rayscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 raysdet
20raysrayNOUNNumber=Plur17 moonstonesnmod
21ofofADP_23 mooncase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 moondet
23moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing20 raysnmod
24distildistilVERBVerbForm=Inf10 illustratedadvcl
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 sortdet
26sortsortNOUNNumber=Sing24 distilobj
27ofofADP_29 syrupcase
28lunarlunarADJDegree=Pos29 syrupamod
29syrupsyrupNOUNNumber=Sing26 sortnmod
30,,PUNCT_31 nectarpunct
31nectarnectarNOUNNumber=Sing29 syrupconj
32ororCCONJ_33 camphorcc
33camphorcamphorNOUNNumber=Sing29 syrupconj
34,,PUNCT_35 supposedpunct
35supposedsupposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 sortacl:relcl
36totoPART_38 composedmark
37bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf38 composedaux:pass
38composedcomposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass35 supposedxcomp
39ofofADP_41 substancecase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 substancedet
41substancesubstanceNOUNNumber=Sing38 composedobl
42ofofADP_44 mooncase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 moondet
44moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing41 substancenmod
45..PUNCT_6 havepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentthe Hindoosa superstition1 discoursevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superstition=Patient
2illustrateparticiplea superstition not said herea previous pagevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3distilinfinitivemoonstones in the rays of the moona sort of lunar syrup and nectar or camphorvn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sort=Source
4supposeparticiplea sort of lunar syrup and nectar or camphor not said herevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5composeto-infinitive · passiveof the substance of the moonvn create-26.4-1 «NP V»
6raythe moonnom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
7sortlunar syrup and nectar or camphornom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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