The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 88
But he said again to Umra-Singh: Remember, if this time also thou art playing false, death is the reward.
Who acts: Umra, death · What happens: say, remember, play, be · To what, where: Umra, reward · Speech: someone speaks here
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, death), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Umra | case |
| 6 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Singh | punct |
| 8 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Umra | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Remember | punct |
| 10 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 art | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 art | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 art | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 art | advmod |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 art | nsubj |
| 17 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Remember | ccomp |
| 18 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 art | xcomp |
| 19 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 playing | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reward | punct |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reward | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 reward | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 reward | det |
| 24 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Remember | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | Umra and Singh | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to umra=Recipient | |||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | play | gerund | false property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | death | the reward | tree rules |
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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