The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 67

But Umra-Singh was so astonished, that he stood like a tree, rooted to the ground: saying to himself: Is it reality, or is it a dream?

Who acts: Umra, ground · What happens: be, stand, root, say · To what, where: tree, Umra, reality, dream · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, ground), 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	_	7 astonished	cc
2	Umra	Umra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Singh	punct
4	Singh	Singh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Umra	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 astonished	advmod
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rooted	punct
16	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tree	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rooted	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stood	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 saying	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 reality	punct
25	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reality	cop
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reality	nsubj
27	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dream	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 dream	cc
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dream	cop
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dream	nsubj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dream	det
33	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reality	conj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Umra			astonished property	tree rules
2	stand	past	Umra			like a tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	root	participle		a tree not said here		to the ground	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Umra not said here		Umra		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	is a	present	ground	reality or a dream			tree rules
6	is a	present	ground	a dream			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 8, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 67