The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 8
But Umra-Singh laughed at them all, and even outdid the moon-crested god[3], in that he drank continually the deadly poison of the ocean of their seductions, without even staining his throat.
Who acts: Umra, women · What happens: laugh, outdo, crest, drink, stain, seduce · To what, where: crested god, deadly poison, throat
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, women), 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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laughed | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 outdid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 outdid | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 outdid | advmod |
| 12 | outdid | outdo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crested | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 moon | punct |
| 16 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 god | amod |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outdid | obj |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 3 | punct |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 god | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 3 | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drank | punct |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 drank | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 drank | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drank | nsubj |
| 25 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 outdid | conj |
| 26 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 25 drank | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 poison | det |
| 28 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 poison | amod |
| 29 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drank | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ocean | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ocean | det |
| 32 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 poison | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 seductions | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 seductions | nmod:poss |
| 35 | seductions | seduction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ocean | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 staining | punct |
| 37 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 39 staining | mark |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 staining | advmod |
| 39 | staining | stain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 drank | advcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 throat | nmod:poss |
| 41 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 staining | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Umra | at women = woman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | outdo | past | Umra not said here | the crested god | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crest | participle | moon compound | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drink | past | Umra | the deadly poison of the ocean of women's seductions | continually property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient | |||
| 5 | stain | gerund | Umra not said here | Umra's throat | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent throat=Destination | ||||
| 6 | seduce | women = woman | nom seduction «act 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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