The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 113
Maheshwara said: It depends not on time, but knowledge: and even an instant can bring it when ten thousand years have failed.
Who acts: Maheshwara, It, instant, thousand years · What happens: say, not depend, bring, fail · To what, where: knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Maheshwara, It, instant, thousand years), 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 | Maheshwara | Maheshwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 depends | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowledge | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 knowledge | cc |
| 11 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 instant | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 instant | det |
| 16 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 depends | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 failed | advmod |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 thousand | compound |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 failed | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 failed | aux |
| 25 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 bring | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maheshwara | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not depend | present | It | knowledge | time | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bring | can | a instant | knowledge | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | present · perfect | thousand years | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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