The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 46

Alas! the courage of women is but a pale and lunar image in the mirror of that of men, and vanishes in their absence.

Who acts: courage, arms · What happens: be, vanish, absent · To what, where: pale image, mirror, absence

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 (courage, arms), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 courage	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courage	det
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 image	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 women	case
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 courage	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 image	cop
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 image	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 image	det
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 image	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lunar	cc
12	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pale	conj
13	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mirror	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mirror	det
16	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 image	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 mirror	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 that	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 vanishes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 vanishes	cc
23	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 image	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 absence	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 absence	nmod:poss
26	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vanishes	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 image	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the courage of women	a pale image	the mirror of that of men	tree rules
2	vanish	present			arms's absence	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	absent		arms = arm			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 46