The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 52
Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade.
Who acts: That, reason · What happens: make, be, shade · To what, where: brightness, lustre, Mysterious veil
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 (That, reason), 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 | Mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 veil | amod |
| 2 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brightness | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brightness | case |
| 5 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 veil | appos |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brightness | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lustre | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 lustre | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lustre | cop |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 lustre | cc:preconj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 veil | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shade | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lustre | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 veil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | brightness not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | That | reason's lustre and reason's shade | reason nmod:poss; reason's shade conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shade | reason | nom shade «state 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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