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title: [19] They were not human, but semi-divine; still, it is impossible t… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [19] They were not human, but semi-divine; still, it is impossible to express the idea of incarnation except in terms of humanity. Who acts: signs. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 127

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\[19\] They were not human, but semi-divine; still, it is impossible to express the idea of incarnation except in terms of humanity.

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**Who acts:** signs · **What happens:** not be, be, express, term · **To what, where:** idea, humanity

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:2:127
# text = [19] They were not human, but semi-divine; still, it is impossible to express the idea of incarnation except in terms of humanity.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	19	19	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	semi-divine	semi-divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	except	except	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | signs *= sign* |  |  |  |  | 19 *discourse*; human *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | signs *= sign* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | signs *= sign* *not said here* |  |  |  | still | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **express** | to-infinitive |  | the idea of incarnation except terms of humanity |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 5 | **term** |  |  | humanity |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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