The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 29
But Umra-Singh rose out of the water like a fowl, and saw the Land of the Lotus away on the sea before him.
Who acts: Umra Singh · What happens: rise, see · To what, where: water, Land, sea
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 Singh), 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 rose | cc |
| 2 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Singh | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Umra | punct |
| 4 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 fowl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fowl | det |
| 12 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Land | det |
| 17 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lotus | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lotus | det |
| 20 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Land | nmod |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 saw | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Umra Singh | the water | like a fowl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Umra Singh not said here | the Land of the Lotus | the sea | before Singh | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
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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