The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 22

But Umra-Singh laughed, and said: Marry her thyself: for I tell thee, I will not marry anybody, but the lady of my dream.

Who acts: Umra, I, my · What happens: laugh, say, marry, tell, not marry, dream · To what, where: thyself, thee, anybody · 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 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, I, my), 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 laughed	cc
2	Umra	Umra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Singh	punct
4	Singh	Singh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Umra	flat
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Marry	punct
10	Marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 thyself	nmod:poss
12	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	10 Marry	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	advcl
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 tell	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 marry	advmod
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Marry	conj
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 marry	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lady	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 lady	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dream	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dream	nmod:poss
30	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lady	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Umra				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Umra not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry	infinitive		thyself			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	present	I		thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
5	not marry	future	I	anybody		the lady of my dream conj	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient
6	dream		my				nom dream «cognition 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 2, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 22