The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 109
As this colour is the keynote of the story, it should be observed, that it is a deep, intense blue, inclining to black, essentially associated in Hindoo literature with the moon-crested God, peacocks, and the lotus.
Who acts: colour · What happens: be, observe, incline, associate, crest · To what, where: colour, Hindoo literature
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 (colour), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 keynote | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 colour | det |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keynote | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keynote | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 keynote | det |
| 6 | keynote | keynote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keynote | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keynote | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 observed | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 observed | aux:pass |
| 14 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deep | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 deep | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deep | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 deep | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 deep | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 observed | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blue | punct |
| 22 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blue | amod |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deep | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inclining | punct |
| 25 | inclining | incline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 blue | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 black | case |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 inclining | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 associated | punct |
| 29 | essentially | essentially | ADV | _ | 30 associated | advmod |
| 30 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 inclining | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 literature | case |
| 32 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 literature | compound |
| 33 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 associated | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 God | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 God | det |
| 36 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crested | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 moon | punct |
| 38 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 God | amod |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 literature | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 peacocks | punct |
| 41 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 literature | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lotus | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 lotus | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 lotus | det |
| 45 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this colour | as the keynote; of the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | should · passive | colour | the lotus obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | colour | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | colour not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | incline | gerund | colour not said here | to black | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent to black=Theme | ||||
| 6 | associate | participle | colour not said here | Hindoo literature with the crested God and peacocks | essentially property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | crest | participle | moon compound | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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