The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 127

[19] They were not human, but semi-divine; still, it is impossible to express the idea of incarnation except in terms of humanity.

Who acts: signs · What happens: not be, be, express, term · To what, where: idea, humanity

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 (signs), 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 19	punct
2	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 human	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 19	punct
4	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 human	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 human	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 human	advmod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 semi-divine	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 semi-divine	cc
10	semi-divine	semi-divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 human	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 impossible	punct
12	still	still	ADV	_	16 impossible	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 still	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 impossible	expl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 impossible	cop
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 human	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 express	mark
18	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 impossible	csubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 express	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 incarnation	case
22	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 idea	nmod
23	except	except	ADP	_	25 terms	case
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 terms	case
25	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 incarnation	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 humanity	case
27	humanity	humanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 terms	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 human	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	signs = sign			19 discourse; human property	tree rules
2	be		signs = sign not said here				tree rules
3	is	present	signs = sign not said here		still	impossible property	tree rules
4	express	to-infinitive		the idea of incarnation except terms of humanity			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
5	term			humanity			nom term «communication transitive»: of=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 127

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 127