The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 33
And undoubtedly, if such a Land exists in the world, it can be known only to the birds of the air.
Who acts: Land · What happens: exist, know · To what, where: world, Land
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 (Land), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 known | cc |
| 2 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 16 known | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 undoubtedly | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 exists | mark |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Land | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Land | det |
| 7 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exists | nsubj |
| 8 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exists | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exists | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 birds | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 birds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 birds | det |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 known | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 air | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 birds | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist a condition, not said to happen | present | such Land | the world | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | can · passive | Land | to the birds of the air; undoubtedly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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