The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 32
Nothing can surpass the taste, beauty, and grace of the way in which it follows and reveals without betraying the figure of its wearer.
Who acts: Nothing, way · What happens: surpass, follow, reveal, betray, figure · To what, where: taste, way, figure, wearer
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 (Nothing, way), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 surpass | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 surpass | aux |
| 3 | surpass | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 taste | det |
| 5 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surpass | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beauty | punct |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grace | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grace | cc |
| 10 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surpass | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grace | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 follows | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 follows | nsubj |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reveals | cc |
| 19 | reveals | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 follows | conj |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 betraying | mark |
| 21 | betraying | betray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reveals | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 figure | det |
| 23 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betraying | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wearer | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wearer | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 figure | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surpass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surpass | can | Nothing | the taste and beauty | grace of the way obl | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | present | way | the way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | reveal | present | way not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | betray | gerund | way not said here | the figure of way's wearer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | figure | way's wearer | nom figure «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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