The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 47
So where is the harm? or rather, is it not pure gain, and no loss, to make the attempt and abide the result, whether I live or die?
Who acts: harm, I · What happens: be, not be, make, abide, live, die · To what, where: pure gain, attempt, result
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 (harm, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 where | advmod |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 make | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 where | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 harm | det |
| 5 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 where | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 where | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 gain | cc |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 gain | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rather | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gain | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gain | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gain | advmod |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gain | amod |
| 14 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 where | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loss | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loss | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 loss | det |
| 18 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 where | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attempt | det |
| 23 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 abide | cc |
| 25 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 result | det |
| 27 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 abide | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 live | punct |
| 29 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 live | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 live | nsubj |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | parataxis |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 die | cc |
| 33 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 live | conj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the harm | no loss conj; where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | harm | pure gain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | |||||
| 4 | abide | infinitive | the result | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | die | infinitive | I not said here | 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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