The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 71
Yet even so, despair is unavailing.
What happens: be · To what, where: despair unavailing
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: 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 unavailing | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 unavailing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unavailing | punct |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unavailing | compound |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unavailing | cop |
| 7 | unavailing | unavailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unavailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | despair unavailing | 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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