The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 95
So the guards seized Umra-Singh, who offered no resistance, and threw him out into the street, raining upon him as he went a shower of kicks and blows.
Who acts: guards, Umra · What happens: seize, offer, throw out, rain, go · To what, where: Umra, resistance, street, shower
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 (guards, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guards | det |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Singh | punct |
| 7 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Umra | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 offered | nsubj |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Umra | acl:relcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 resistance | det |
| 12 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 threw | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 street | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 street | det |
| 20 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 raining | punct |
| 22 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 threw | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 raining | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 went | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 raining | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 shower | det |
| 29 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 kicks | case |
| 31 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shower | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 blows | cc |
| 33 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kicks | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the guards | Umra | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umra=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Umra | no resistance | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent resistance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw out | past | the guards not said here | Umra | into the street result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into street=Result | |||
| 4 | rain | gerund | the guards not said here | upon Umra | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Umra | a shower of kicks and blows | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shower=Theme |
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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