The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 48

He would be an admirable touchstone for the eyes of this wonderful wife of yours, whose beauty exists, like a bubble, only on the stream of your words.

Who acts: God, beauty, your · What happens: be, exist, word · To what, where: admirable touchstone, bubble, stream

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 (God, beauty, your), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touchstone	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 touchstone	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 touchstone	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 touchstone	det
5	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 touchstone	amod
6	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eyes	det
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touchstone	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wife	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 wife	det
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 yours	case
15	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exists	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 beauty	nmod:poss
18	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exists	nsubj
19	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 touchstone	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bubble	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 bubble	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bubble	det
23	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exists	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stream	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 stream	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 stream	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stream	det
28	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exists	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 words	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 words	nmod:poss
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stream	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touchstone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	would	God	a admirable touchstone		for the eyes of this wonderful wife of yours	tree rules
2	exist	present	beauty	a bubble	the stream of your words		tree rules
3	word		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 48