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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 58

[1] There is here an untranslateable play on the word mriga-trishná, 'the thirst of the antelope,' i.e. the mirage of the desert, to which he compares her eyes.

Who acts: untranslateable play, curse, antelope · What happens: be, compare, thirst · To what, where: eyes

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 (untranslateable play, curse, antelope), 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

punctdiscoursepunctexpladvmoddetamodnsubjcasedetcompoundcompoundpunctnmodpunctpunctdetconjcasedetnmodpunctpunctcasedetconjcasedetnmodpunctcaseoblnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctroot[PUNCT1NUM]PUNCTTherePRONisVERBhereADVanDETuntranslateableADJplayNOUNonADPtheDETwordNOUNmrigaNOUN-PUNCTtrishnáNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTtheDETthirstNOUNofADPtheDETantelopeNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTi.e.ADPtheDETmirageNOUNofADPtheDETdesertNOUN,PUNCTtoADPwhichPRONhePRONcomparesVERBherPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 1punct
211NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card5 isdiscourse
3]]PUNCT_2 1punct
4TheretherePRONPronType=Dem5 isexpl
5isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6herehereADVPronType=Dem5 isadvmod
7anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 playdet
8untranslateableuntranslateableADJDegree=Pos9 playamod
9playplayNOUNNumber=Sing5 isnsubj
10ononADP_15 trishnácase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 trishnádet
12wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing15 trishnácompound
13mrigamrigaNOUNNumber=Sing15 trishnácompound
14--PUNCT_13 mrigapunct
15trishnátrishnáNOUNNumber=Sing9 playnmod
16,,PUNCT_19 thirstpunct
17''PUNCT_19 thirstpunct
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 thirstdet
19thirstthirstNOUNNumber=Sing15 trishnáconj
20ofofADP_22 antelopecase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 antelopedet
22antelopeantelopeNOUNNumber=Sing19 thirstnmod
23,,PUNCT_27 miragepunct
24''PUNCT_27 miragepunct
25i.e.i.e.ADP_27 miragecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 miragedet
27miragemirageNOUNNumber=Sing9 playconj
28ofofADP_30 desertcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 desertdet
30desertdesertNOUNNumber=Sing27 miragenmod
31,,PUNCT_35 comparespunct
32totoADP_33 whichcase
33whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel35 comparesobl
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 comparesnsubj
35comparescompareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 playacl:relcl
36herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 eyesnmod:poss
37eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur35 comparesobj
38..PUNCT_5 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1doespresenta untranslateable play on the word mriga trishná and the thirst of the antelope and the mirage of the deserthere; there1 discoursevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comparepresentcursewife's eyesto a untranslateable play on the word mriga trishná and the thirst of the antelope and the mirage of the desertvn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3thirstthe antelopenom thirst «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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