The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 99
But all this cannot be expressed in English, as it can in Sanskrit, by a single word.
Who acts: single word · What happens: not express · To what, where: this, English
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 (single word), 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 | _ | 7 expressed | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 this | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 expressed | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 expressed | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expressed | aux:pass |
| 7 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 English | case |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 expressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 can | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 can | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 expressed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Sanskrit | case |
| 15 | Sanskrit | Sanskrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 can | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 word | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 word | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 word | amod |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expressed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not express | can · passive | a single word | this | English | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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