The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 15

And then Umra-Singh took hold of them by the neck, one in each hand; and they stretched out their necks, and flew away with him over the desert as he hung.

Who acts: Umra, Swans · What happens: take, stretch out, fly away, hang, hold · To what, where: hold, necks, desert, Swans

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, Swans), 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	_	6 took	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
3	Umra	Umra	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Singh	punct
5	Singh	Singh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Umra	flat
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 neck	det
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 took	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stretched	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stretched	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stretched	nsubj
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 stretched	compound:prt
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 necks	nmod:poss
24	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stretched	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stretched	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 flew	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 desert	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 desert	det
33	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 hung	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hung	nsubj
36	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flew	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Umra	hold of Swans		then	by the neck; one in each hand conj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	stretch out	past	Swans = swan	Swans's necks				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
3	fly away	past	Swans = swan not said here		the desert		with Umra; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over desert=Location
4	hang	past	Umra					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold			Swans = swan				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 15