The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 5

And when he grew up, there was no one in that country who could match him in riding, or wrestling, or swordsmanship, or any other martial exercise: so that the people said of him: He looks like the very soul of the nature of a Kshatriya that has assumed a body suited to its deeds.

Who acts: Kamalamitra, one, country, people · What happens: grow up, be, match, say, look, assume · To what, where: Kamalamitra, riding, nature, body · 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 (Kamalamitra, one, country, people), 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	_	8 was	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grew	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 match	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 match	aux
16	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 country	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 match	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 riding	case
19	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 match	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wrestling	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 wrestling	cc
22	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riding	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swordsmanship	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 swordsmanship	cc
25	swordsmanship	swordsmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riding	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exercise	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 exercise	cc
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 exercise	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 exercise	amod
30	martial	martial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 exercise	amod
31	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riding	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 said	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 looks	punct
41	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looks	nsubj
42	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 said	conj
43	like	like	ADP	_	46 soul	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 soul	det
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 soul	advmod
46	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 looks	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 nature	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 nature	det
49	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 soul	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Kshatriya	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 Kshatriya	det
52	Kshatriya	Kshatriya	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 nature	nmod
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 assumed	nsubj:pass
54	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 assumed	aux
55	assumed	assume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 nature	acl:relcl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 body	det
57	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 assumed	obj
58	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 body	acl
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 deeds	case
60	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 deeds	nmod:poss
61	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 suited	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	Kamalamitra				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	no one in that country		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	match	could	that country	Kamalamitra	riding or wrestling or swordsmanship or any other martial exercise		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the people			of Kamalamitra	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	look	present	Kamalamitra			like the soul of the nature of a Kshatriya	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	assume	present · perfect · passive		the nature of a Kshatriya		a body obj	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme body=Eventuality
7	suit	participle		a body not said here		to country's deeds	tree rules

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 5