The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 77
Then Umra-Singh said to himself: Surely this is no hermit, but a vile Rákshasa, who only seeks to delude me.
Who acts: Umra, this, vile Rákshasa · What happens: say, be, seek, delude · To what, where: Umra, hermit, me · 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, this, vile Rákshasa), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hermit | punct |
| 9 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 hermit | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 hermit | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hermit | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 hermit | det |
| 13 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeks | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 seeks | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Rákshasa | det |
| 17 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rákshasa | amod |
| 18 | Rákshasa | Rákshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 seeks | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeks | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 seeks | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 seeks | advmod |
| 22 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hermit | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 delude | mark |
| 24 | delude | delude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seeks | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 delude | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | Umra | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | no hermit | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seek | present | a vile Rákshasa | no hermit nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | delude not said to happen | to-infinitive | a vile Rákshasa not said here | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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