The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 3

But Shrí said: Say not pool, but ocean, on which the sun shines for ever, yet never makes it any less: for such is my love to my husband.

Who acts: Shrí, sun · What happens: say, not say, shine, not make, be · To what, where: pool, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shrí, sun), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Say	punct
5	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Say	advmod
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ocean	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ocean	cc
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Say	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shines	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 shines	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shines	nsubj
16	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Say	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 ever	case
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 shines	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 makes	punct
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	22 makes	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 makes	advmod
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 makes	obj
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 less	advmod
25	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 makes	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 love	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 love	amod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 love	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod:poss
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 husband	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 husband	nmod:poss
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 love	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Shrí			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	infinitive		pool	ocean obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pool=Topic
3	shine	present	the sun		which obl	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location
4	not make	present	Shrí not said here	sun	less property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	is	present			for my such love; to my husband; my nmod:poss	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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 3