The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 96
And Umra-Singh said to himself: Beyond a doubt this is no ascetic, but the very King of Rákshasas; nevertheless, he shall tell me my road, if he comes again, or it shall be the worse for him.
Who acts: Umra, this, road · What happens: say, be, tell, come · To what, where: Umra, ascetic, road, 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, road), 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 | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 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 | _ | 15 ascetic | punct |
| 9 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 doubt | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 doubt | det |
| 11 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ascetic | obl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ascetic | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ascetic | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 ascetic | det |
| 15 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 King | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 King | advmod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ascetic | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Rákshasas | case |
| 22 | Rákshasas | Rákshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 24 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 28 tell | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nevertheless | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | aux |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ascetic | parataxis |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | iobj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 road | nmod:poss |
| 31 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 comes | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 comes | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 comes | nsubj |
| 35 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | parataxis |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 comes | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 worse | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 worse | cc |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 worse | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 worse | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 worse | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 worse | det |
| 43 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 comes | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 worse | obl |
| 46 | . | . | 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 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | no ascetic | beyond a doubt; the King of Rákshasas appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | shall | Umra | my road | me | nevertheless property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient road=Topic | ||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | Umra | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | shall | road | for Umra; bad property | tree rules |
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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