The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 108

But no one could be found who had ever even heard of it, much less seen it.

What happens: find, hear, see · To what, where: one, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 heard	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 heard	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 heard	advmod
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 found	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 less	advmod
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 heard	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	could · passive	no one			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	hear	past · perfect		ever	of news; who nsubj	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	see	participle	news		less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 108