The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 1

[4] A _rajpoot_ means only _the son of a king_, and it is to be observed that there were rajpoots in India long before the present 'Rajpoots' ever came there.

Who acts: 4, rajpoots, present · What happens: mean, observe, be, come · To what, where: son, _

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (4, rajpoots, present), 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 4	punct
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 means	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 _	det
5	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 _	amod
6	rajpoot	rajpoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 _	compound
7	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 son	advmod
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 only	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 observed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 observed	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 observed	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 observed	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 observed	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 observed	aux:pass
23	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 means	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 were	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 were	expl
26	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	advcl
27	rajpoots	rajpoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 were	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 India	case
29	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rajpoots	nmod
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 came	advmod
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 present	det
33	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 Rajpoots	punct
35	Rajpoots	rajpoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 present	appos
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 Rajpoots	punct
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 came	advmod
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 observed	parataxis
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 came	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	4	the son of a king			a _ rajpoot _ nsubj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic
2	observe	present · passive		_				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	be	past	rajpoots in India		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the present		there	ever	long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/1/

🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 1