The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 33

[2] The point of these gibes depends on the various meanings of the word Shrí: which may mean his wife, or the goddess of fortune, or the moon: out of which come herbs or medicines.

Who acts: point · What happens: depend, mean, come, point · To what, where: wife, herbs, gibes, word

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (point), 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	9 depends	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depends	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 gibes	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 gibes	det
8	gibes	gibe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 point	nmod
9	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 meanings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meanings	det
12	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meanings	amod
13	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 depends	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 word	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meanings	nmod
17	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 word	appos
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 mean	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	aux
21	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 depends	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mean	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 goddess	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 goddess	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 goddess	det
27	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wife	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fortune	case
29	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 goddess	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moon	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 moon	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moon	det
33	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wife	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 which	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 come	nsubj
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	conj
39	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 come	obj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 medicines	cc
41	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 herbs	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 depends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	depend	present	the point of this gibes		on the various meanings of the word; 2 discourse	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on meaning=Theme
2	mean	may		point's wife or the moon	which nsubj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	come	present		herbs or medicines	which nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herb=Theme
4	point			this gibes		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	mean			the word		nom meaning «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 6, sentence 33