The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 118

[12] There is here an untranslateable play on the word _bhoga_: which means both the coil of a snake and enjoyment.

Who acts: untranslateable play, bhoga · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: bhoga, coil

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 (untranslateable play, bhoga), 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 12	punct
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 is	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 12	punct
4	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bhoga	cop
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 is	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 play	det
8	untranslateable	untranslateable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 play	amod
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bhoga	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 word	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	nmod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 bhoga	punct
14	bhoga	bhoga	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 bhoga	punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 means	nsubj
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bhoga	parataxis
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	21 coil	cc:preconj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coil	det
21	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 snake	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snake	det
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coil	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 enjoyment	cc
26	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snake	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 bhoga	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a untranslateable play on the word	bhoga					tree rules
2	mean	present	bhoga	the coil of a snake and enjoyment					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Topic

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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 118