The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 36

And Umra-Singh laughed, and said to himself: What! are they still looking for a man, who has seen the Land of the Lotus of the Sun?

Who acts: Umra, criers, man · What happens: laugh, say, look, see · To what, where: Umra, Land · 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, criers, man), 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	And	and	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	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 What	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 looking	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 What	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	aux
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looking	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 looking	advmod
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seen	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 man	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Land	det
26	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Lotus	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lotus	det
29	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Land	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Sun	det
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Lotus	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	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		Umra			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	look	present · progressive	criers = crier			still	for a man; What obl	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for man=Theme
4	see	present · perfect	a man	the Land of the Lotus of the Sun				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 36