The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 2
But Umra-Singh suddenly struck at him a blow of his sword, and as luck would have it, he cut off the end of his tongue.
Who acts: Umra, Wairágí, sword · What happens: strike, have, cut off, blow · To what, where: blow, end
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. 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, sword), 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 | _ | 6 struck | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Umra | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 struck | advmod |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 luck | case |
| 17 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 struck | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cut | nsubj |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | parataxis |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 cut | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tongue | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 end | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Umra | a blow of Wairágí's sword | at Wairágí; suddenly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | would | Umra not said here | blow | as luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | cut off | past | Wairágí | the end of Wairágí's tongue | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector end=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | blow | Wairágí's sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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