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title: Then after a while, Umra-Singh said: Bridegroom or no bridegroom, I… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then after a while, Umra-Singh said: Bridegroom or no bridegroom, I will not marry anybody but the lady of my dream. Who acts: Umra, I, my. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, 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 2, sentence 14

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Then after a while, Umra-Singh said: Bridegroom or no bridegroom, I will not marry anybody but the lady of my dream.

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**Who acts:** Umra, I, my · **What happens:** say, not marry, dream · **To what, where:** anybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, I, my), 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:pg68641:4:14
# text = Then after a while, Umra-Singh said: Bridegroom or no bridegroom, I will not marry anybody but the lady of my dream.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Bridegroom	Bridegroom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Umra |  |  |  | then; while | Bridegroom or no bridegroom *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **marry** | future | I | anybody  the lady of my dream |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient |
| 3 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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