The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 41
For who can compare the description with a reality which neither he nor anyone else ever saw?
Who acts: reality · What happens: compare, saw · To what, where: description
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reality), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 compare | mark |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 compare | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 compare | aux |
| 4 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 description | det |
| 6 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compare | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 reality | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reality | det |
| 9 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compare | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 he | cc:preconj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 anyone | cc |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 he | conj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 anyone | advmod |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 saw | advmod |
| 17 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reality | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | can | the description | with a reality; who nsubj | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent description=Patient with reality=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | saw | a reality | ever | Land nsubj | 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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