The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 78
Then Umra-Singh fell on his knees beside her with a wail, and took his darling in his arms, while her blood gushed out over him like a river, carrying away her life.
Who acts: Umra, blood · What happens: fall, take, gush out, carry away · To what, where: knees, darling, arms, life
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, blood), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wail | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wail | det |
| 13 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 darling | nmod:poss |
| 18 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 arms | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gushed | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 gushed | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blood | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gushed | nsubj |
| 26 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 took | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 gushed | compound:prt |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gushed | obl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 river | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 river | det |
| 32 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gushed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carrying | punct |
| 34 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 gushed | advcl |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 carrying | advmod |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carrying | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Umra | Umra's knees | then | beside sword; with a wail | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||
| 2 | take | past | Umra not said here | Umra's darling | Umra's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent darling=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 3 | gush out | participle | sword's blood | over Umra; like a river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location | ||||
| 4 | carry away | gerund | sword's blood not said here | sword's life | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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