The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 2
[5] i.e. the Sun. There are double meanings in this period, comparing him to the Sun.
Who acts: double meanings · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: present
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 (double meanings), 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 | _ | 4 i.e. | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 i.e. | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 8 are | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun. | det |
| 6 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 i.e. | obj |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 comparing | advcl |
| 9 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meanings | amod |
| 10 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 period | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 period | det |
| 13 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meanings | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comparing | punct |
| 15 | comparing | compare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 comparing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Sun. | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun. | det |
| 19 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 comparing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | double meanings in this period | there | i.e. property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | compare | gerund | present | sunday | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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