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title: And a tawny lion leaped out of the wood, before the eyes of Umra-Sin… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And a tawny lion leaped out of the wood, before the eyes of Umra-Singh, and stood over her as she lay. Who acts: tawny lion, lion. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 73

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And a tawny lion leaped out of the wood, before the eyes of Umra-Singh, and stood over her as she lay.

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**Who acts:** tawny lion, lion · **What happens:** leap out, stand, lay · **To what, where:** wood

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tawny lion, lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:10:73
# text = And a tawny lion leaped out of the wood, before the eyes of Umra-Singh, and stood over her as she lay.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap out** | participle | a tawny lion | the wood |  |  |  | the eyes of Umra and Singh *conj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a tawny lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over lion | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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