The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 45

Then his friend laughed in derision, and said: Boasting is useless, and in words, all men can do everything, and every woman is another Rambhá[15].

Who acts: friend, Boasting, men, woman · What happens: laugh, say, be, do · To what, where: everything, words, Rambhá · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friend, Boasting, men, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laughed	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 derision	case
6	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 useless	punct
11	Boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 useless	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 useless	cop
13	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 words	case
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 words	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 men	det
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 useless	conj
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Rambhá	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Rambhá	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 woman	det
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Rambhá	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Rambhá	cop
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 Rambhá	det
30	Rambhá	Rambhá	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	parataxis
31	[	[	PUNCT	_	32 15	punct
32	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 Rambhá	appos
33	]	]	PUNCT	_	32 15	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Tilottamá's friend			then	in derision	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in derision=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Tilottamá's friend not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Boasting				useless property	tree rules
4	do	can	all men	everything	words			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
5	is a	present	every woman	another Rambhá			15 appos	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 45