The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 60
[3] The Hindoos never had a Lucian, to laugh at their mythological contradictions.
Who acts: Hindoos · What happens: not have, laugh · To what, where: 3, mythological contradictions
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 (Hindoos), 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 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 had | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hindoos | det |
| 5 | Hindoos | Hindoos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Lucian | det |
| 9 | Lucian | Lucian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 laugh | mark |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 contradictions | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 contradictions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 contradictions | amod |
| 16 | contradictions | contradiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laugh | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | the Hindoos | 3 | a Lucian obj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lucian=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | the Hindoos not said here | desert's mythological contradictions | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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