The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 113

But the word has another technical philosophical significance: it connotes evil, clinging to the soul by reason of sin in a former birth, and begetting the necessity of expiation in another body.

Who acts: word, significance · What happens: have, connote, cling, beget · To what, where: technical philosophical significance, evil, necessity, body

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 (word, significance), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 has	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 significance	det
6	technical	technical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 significance	amod
7	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 significance	amod
8	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 connotes	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 connotes	nsubj
11	connotes	connote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 significance	acl:relcl
12	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 connotes	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clinging	punct
14	clinging	cling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 connotes	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 soul	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soul	det
17	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clinging	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 reason	case
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clinging	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sin	case
21	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reason	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 birth	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 birth	det
24	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 birth	amod
25	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sin	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 begetting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 begetting	cc
28	begetting	beget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 has	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 necessity	det
30	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begetting	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 expiation	case
32	expiation	expiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 necessity	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 body	case
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	35 body	det
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begetting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the word	another technical philosophical significance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent significance=Patient
2	connote	present	significance	evil			tree rules
3	cling	gerund	significance not said here			to the soul; by reason of sin in a former birth	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to soul=Co-Theme
4	beget	gerund	the word not said here	the necessity of expiation	another body		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necessity=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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 113