The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 101
But Umra-Singh leaned towards her, with hungry eyes, for his soul yearned for the repetition of a forgotten past.
Who acts: Umra, soul, forgotten past · What happens: learn, yearn, forget, repeat
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, soul, forgotten past), 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 | _ | 5 leaned | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yearned | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 yearned | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yearned | nsubj |
| 16 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaned | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 repetition | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 repetition | det |
| 19 | repetition | repetition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yearned | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 past | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 past | det |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 past | amod |
| 23 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 repetition | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Umra | towards Shrí; with hungry eyes | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | yearn | past | Umra's soul | for the repetition of a forgotten past | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for repetition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | repeat | a forgotten past | nom repetition «event 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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