The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 50

Then his friend laughed again, and said: Do nothing rash, thou art not Daksha[17]: once gone, thy head can never be restored.

Who acts: friend · What happens: laugh, say, do, not restore · To what, where: nothing rash, head · 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), 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	again	again	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Do	punct
10	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 rash	compound
12	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Do	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 art	punct
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 art	nsubj
15	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Do	advcl
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 Daksha	advmod
17	Daksha	Daksha	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 art	obj
18	[	[	PUNCT	_	19 17	punct
19	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 Daksha	appos
20	]	]	PUNCT	_	19 17	punct
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 gone	advmod
23	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 restored	punct
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 restored	nsubj:pass
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 restored	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 restored	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 restored	aux:pass
30	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gone	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	laugh	past	God's friend		then; again	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	God's friend not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	infinitive		nothing rash		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rash=Eventuality
4	not restore	can · passive		thy head		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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 50

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 50