The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 51

For anything characteristic of multitudes must be very common: and yet how can that which is common escape the notice of all?

What happens: be, escape · To what, where: notice

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 characteristic	case
2	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 characteristic	compound
3	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 common	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 multitudes	case
5	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 characteristic	nmod
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 common	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 common	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 common	advmod
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 can	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 can	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 can	advmod
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 can	advmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 common	aux
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 common	mark
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 common	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 common	cop
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 can	nsubj
19	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 common	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 notice	det
21	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 escape	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 notice	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can		for anything characteristic of multitudes; common property	tree rules
2	is	present		which nsubj; common property	tree rules
3	escape	infinitive	the notice of all		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial_Location

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 51