The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 7
But Umra-Singh lay in the street, more like a dead than a living man, covered with bruises and bereft of sense.
Who acts: Umra · What happens: lie, cover · To what, where: street
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), 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 lay | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 dead | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 dead | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dead | det |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lay | advcl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 covered | punct |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dead | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 bruises | case |
| 21 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bereft | cc |
| 23 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bruises | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sense | case |
| 25 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bereft | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Umra | the street | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | Umra not said here | with bruises | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bruise=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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