The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 68
And Umra-Singh heard her laughter dying away in the distance as she went, and he was left alone in the wood, with the water up to his waist.
Who acts: Umra, laughter, lake · What happens: hear, die away, go, leave up · To what, where: laughter, Ulupí, wood
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, laughter, lake), 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 heard | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 laughter | acl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 dying | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dying | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux:pass |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | conj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 left | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 left | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 waist | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 waist | nmod:poss |
| 32 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Umra | lake's laughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer laughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | die away | gerund | lake's laughter not said here | in the distance; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in distance=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | past | lake | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave up | past · passive | Ulupí | the wood | with the water; to Ulupí's waist; alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wood=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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