The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 66
And as Umra-Singh stood gazing at her with astonishment, he found himself standing in a vast marsh, with the trees of the forest for rushes.
Who acts: Umra, Ulupí · What happens: stand, gaze, find · To what, where: Ulupí, vast marsh
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, Ulupí), 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 | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 stood | mark |
| 3 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Singh | punct |
| 5 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Umra | flat |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | advcl |
| 7 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gazing | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 astonishment | case |
| 11 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 found | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 marsh | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 marsh | det |
| 19 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 marsh | amod |
| 20 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trees | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 trees | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trees | det |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 standing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trees | nmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 rushes | case |
| 29 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 standing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Umra | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | Umra not said here | at lake; with astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Ulupí | Ulupí | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Ulupí not said here | a vast marsh | with the trees of the forest; for rushes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marsh=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.
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