The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 95

And as Umra-Singh watched him, suddenly that deceitful Wairágí became a bat, and stuck out at him again his tongue, and flew away through the trees.

Who acts: Umra, Wairágí · What happens: watch, become, stick out, fly away · To what, where: Father, bat, tongue, trees

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, Wairágí), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 watched	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 watched	mark
3	Umra	Umra	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 watched	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Singh	punct
5	Singh	Singh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Umra	flat
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deceitful	punct
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 deceitful	advmod
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 deceitful	nsubj
11	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watched	xcomp
12	Wairágí	Wairágí	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 deceitful	advcl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bat	det
15	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stuck	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stuck	cc
18	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 watched	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 stuck	compound:prt
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuck	obl
22	again	again	ADV	_	18 stuck	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tongue	nmod:poss
24	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuck	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 flew	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 trees	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trees	det
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Umra	Father			deceitful property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	become	past	Wairágí	a bat				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	stick out	participle	Umra not said here	Umra's tongue		again	at Umra	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at he=Destination
4	fly away	past	Umra not said here		the trees		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/95/

🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 95