The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 57

And now it will be better for us not to venture upon the verge of a precipice, over which we may both fall, into irreparable disaster.

Who acts: it, us, we · What happens: be, not venture, fall · To what, where: irreparable disaster

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 (it, us, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 better	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 venture	mark
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 venture	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 venture	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 venture	mark
11	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	csubj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 verge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 verge	det
14	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 venture	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 precipice	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 precipice	det
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 verge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fall	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fall	obl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fall	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fall	aux
23	both	both	ADV	_	24 fall	advmod
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 venture	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 disaster	punct
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 disaster	case
27	irreparable	irreparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 disaster	amod
28	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fall	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	it		now	good property	tree rules
2	not venture	to-infinitive	us			upon the verge of a precipice	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	fall	may	we	irreparable disaster		which obl; both property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over which=Initial_Location into disaster=Destination

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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 57