The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 40
And Umra-Singh looked down into them as into two dark pools, and he felt them pounding his heart like a pair of fists[4].
Who acts: Umra, Shrí · What happens: look down, feel, pound · To what, where: Umra, heart
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, Shrí), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pools | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pools | nummod |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pools | amod |
| 13 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 as | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | obj |
| 19 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 felt | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pounding | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 pair | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pounding | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fists | case |
| 26 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 4 | punct |
| 28 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 fists | appos |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 4 | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Umra | into eyes = eye; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Shrí | Umra | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pound | gerund | Shrí not said here | Shrí's heart | like a pair of fists | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Product |
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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