The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 97
According to the Hindoos, lotuses are divided into those of the Day and Night, whose lovers are the Sun and Moon.
Who acts: lovers · What happens: accord, divide, be · To what, where: lotuses, those, Sun
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 (lovers), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Hindoos | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hindoos | det |
| 4 | Hindoos | Hindoos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hindoos | punct |
| 6 | lotuses | lotus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 divided | aux:pass |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 divided | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Day | det |
| 13 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Night | cc |
| 15 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Day | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sun | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Sun | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Sun | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Day | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Moon | cc |
| 23 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sun | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | divide | present · passive | lotuses | those of the Day and Night and the Sun and Moon | accord the Hindoos | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the Sun and Moon's lovers | the Sun and Moon | Moon conj | tree rules |
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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