The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 18
[7] These names, which recall certain passages in the Rámayan, lose much of their effect in translation.
Who acts: names, passages · What happens: recall, lose, effect · To what, where: certain passages, Rámayan, much, 7, translation
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 (names, passages), 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 | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 4 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 names | det |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 7 | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 recall | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 recall | nsubj |
| 8 | recall | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 names | acl:relcl |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passages | amod |
| 10 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 recall | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Rámayan | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rámayan | det |
| 13 | Rámayan | Rámayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 passages | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recall | conj |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lose | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 effect | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 effect | nmod:poss |
| 19 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 much | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 translation | case |
| 21 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 effect | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | present | this names | certain passages | the Rámayan | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | present | this names not said here | much of passages's effect in translation | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | effect | passages = passage | translation | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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