The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 107

[4] This is a sort of Hindoo _façon de parler_: it must not be supposed to make him any the older.

Who acts: This, Hindoo · What happens: be, not suppose, make, any · To what, where: sort, parler, Hindoo, older, 4

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Hindoo), 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	_	2 4	punct
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct
4	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sort	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sort	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sort	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 4	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Hindoo	case
9	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 façon	punct
11	façon	façon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	appos
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 façon	flat:foreign
13	parler	parler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 façon	conj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 façon	punct
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 supposed	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 supposed	nsubj:pass
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 supposed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 supposed	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 supposed	aux:pass
20	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sort	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 supposed	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	any	any	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 older	det
26	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 any	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a sort	of Hindoo; façon and parler appos	tree rules
2	not suppose	must · passive		parler		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	make	to-infinitive		Hindoo		tree rules
4	any	infinitive	Hindoo not said here	the older		tree rules

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 107