The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 48
Then said Umra-Singh: One for three is no bargain; but what, then, are thy lost ways?
Who acts: Umra, One, lost ways · What happens: say, be, lose · To what, where: bargain · 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 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, One, lost ways), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Singh | punct |
| 5 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Umra | flat |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 bargain | punct |
| 7 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bargain | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 One | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bargain | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 bargain | det |
| 12 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 said | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 what | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 ways | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ways | amod |
| 22 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 what | nsubj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | One for three | no bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | thy lost ways | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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