The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 17
And Umra-Singh looked down and saw, far below him, the blue sea, shimmering like the eyes of Shrí.
Who acts: Umra · What happens: look down, see, shimmer
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), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Singh | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Umra | flat |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 far | punct |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | advmod |
| 11 | below | below | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 far | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sea | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shimmering | punct |
| 18 | shimmering | shimmer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looked | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shimmering | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Shrí | case |
| 23 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Umra | the blue sea parataxis | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Umra not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | shimmer | gerund | Umra not said here | like the eyes of Shrí | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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