The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 28
Then Umra-Singh took it up, and immediately went out of the city, making for the quarter pointed out like a finger by the blade of his sword.
Who acts: Umra, quarter · What happens: take up, go out, make, point out · To what, where: sword, city
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, quarter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 pointed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 quarter | det |
| 20 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointed | nsubj |
| 21 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 making | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pointed | compound:prt |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 finger | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 finger | det |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointed | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 blade | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 blade | det |
| 28 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sword | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blade | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Umra | sword | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Umra not said here | the city | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Umra not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | point out | past | the quarter | like a finger; by the blade of Umra's sword | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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