The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 78
[1] That is, her soul, as distinguished from her body: that part of her which, according to Plato and the Bhagwad-Gitá (more logical than modern theologians) _is never born and never dies_.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, distinguish, accord, not bear, not die · To what, where: soul, Plato
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: who acts (That), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 soul | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 soul | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 soul | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 soul | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 soul | nmod:poss |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distinguished | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 distinguished | mark |
| 11 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 soul | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distinguished | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soul | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 which | nmod:poss |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 born | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Plato | punct |
| 22 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 Plato | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 according | fixed |
| 24 | Plato | Plato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 born | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Gitá | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Gitá | det |
| 27 | Bhagwad | Bhagwad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Gitá | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bhagwad | punct |
| 29 | Gitá | Gitá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Plato | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 logical | punct |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 logical | advmod |
| 32 | logical | logical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Gitá | appos |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 theologians | case |
| 34 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 theologians | amod |
| 35 | theologians | theologian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 logical | obl |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 logical | punct |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Plato | punct |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 born | aux:pass |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 born | advmod |
| 40 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 part | acl:relcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dies | cc |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 dies | advmod |
| 43 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 born | conj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 dies | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 soul | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | matter's soul | 1 discourse; matter nmod:poss; that part parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | distinguish | participle | matter's soul not said here | from matter's body | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent from body=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not bear | present · passive | Plato and the Bhagwad Gitá | of that part | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not die | present | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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