The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 24
But Umra-Singh persuaded his gaolers to let him escape, for the subjects loved him more than his father.
Who acts: Umra, subjects · What happens: persuade, let, escape, love · To what, where: gaolers, Umra
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, subjects), 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 persuaded | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gaolers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gaolers | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 persuaded | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 persuaded | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loved | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 loved | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 subjects | det |
| 15 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 persuaded | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 loved | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 more | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | Umra | Umra's gaolers | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaoler=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | Umra not said here | Umra | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | Umra not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | past | the subjects | Umra | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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