The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 11
But when Umra-Singh heard them name the Land of the Lotus, his heart leaped in his breast.
Who acts: Umra, you · What happens: hear, name, leap · To what, where: ceremonies, Land, heart, breast
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, you), 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 | _ | 8 name | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Singh | punct |
| 5 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Umra | flat |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | parataxis |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Land | det |
| 10 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Lotus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lotus | det |
| 13 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | conj |
| 17 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heart | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 breast | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 breast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Umra | ceremonies = ceremony | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | name | imperative | you not said here | the Land of the Lotus and Umra's heart | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap | participle | Umra's heart not said here | Umra's breast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Trajectory |
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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