The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 54
And Umra-Singh seemed in his eyes like a draught of nectar, and like the fulfilment of all his desires in bodily form.
Who acts: Umra · What happens: seem, fulfil, desire · To what, where: desires, bodily form
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), 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 seemed | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 draught | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 draught | det |
| 11 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nectar | case |
| 13 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draught | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fulfilment | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilment | cc |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 fulfilment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fulfilment | det |
| 18 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 desires | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 desires | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 desires | nmod:poss |
| 22 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fulfilment | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 form | case |
| 24 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 form | amod |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 desires | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Umra | like the fulfilment of Umra's desires in bodily form; in Umra's eyes like a draught of nectar | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in eye=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | fulfil | Umra's desires in bodily form | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | desire | Umra | bodily form | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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