The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 10

Its meaning can best be learned from the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari, devoted to it.

Who acts: world · What happens: learn, devote, mean, section · To what, where: meaning, third section, world, Centuries

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meaning	nmod:poss
2	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learned	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 learned	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 learned	aux:pass
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 section	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 section	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 section	amod
10	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Centuries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Centuries	det
13	Centuries	Century	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 section	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Bhartrihari	case
15	Bhartrihari	Bhartrihari	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Centuries	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 devoted	punct
17	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 learned	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 devoted	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	learn	can · passive		world's meaning	the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from section=Source
2	devote	participle			world	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to it=Goal
3	mean		world			nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	section			the Centuries of Bhartrihari		nom section «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 10