The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 20
But Umra-Singh cared no more for the stream of his derision than Maheshwara for the Ganges when it fell on his head.
Who acts: Umra, Ganges · What happens: care, fall, deride · To what, where: more, head
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, Ganges), 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 | _ | 5 cared | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cared | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 cared | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 stream | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cared | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 derision | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 derision | nmod:poss |
| 13 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stream | nmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 Maheshwara | case |
| 15 | Maheshwara | Maheshwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 derision | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Ganges | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ganges | det |
| 18 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 derision | nmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 fell | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cared | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | Umra | more | for the stream of Umra's derision than Maheshwara for the Ganges | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Ganges | Umra's head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 3 | deride | Umra | than Maheshwara; for the Ganges | nom derision «communication transitive»: poss=agent than=obl for=obl |
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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