The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 26

[2] He compares himself to the husband of the other Shrí, i.e. the Goddess of Beauty, or Wishnu, whose second incarnation was that of a tortoise.

Who acts: doubtless, Wishnu · What happens: compare, be · To what, where: doubtless

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubtless, Wishnu), 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 2	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 compares	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
4	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 compares	nsubj
5	compares	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 compares	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compares	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Shrí	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Shrí	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Shrí	amod
13	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 husband	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Goddess	punct
15	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	17 Goddess	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Goddess	det
17	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 husband	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Beauty	case
19	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Goddess	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tortoise	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 tortoise	cc
22	Wishnu	Wishnu	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 tortoise	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 incarnation	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 incarnation	nmod:poss
25	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 incarnation	amod
26	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Wishnu	appos
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tortoise	cop
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 tortoise	mark
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tortoise	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tortoise	det
31	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compares	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	present	doubtless	doubtless				to the husband of the other Shrí; 2 discourse	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	is	past	Wishnu					of a tortoise	tree rules

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 tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 26