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title: And Umra-Singh seemed in his eyes like a draught of nectar, and like… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And Umra-Singh seemed in his eyes like a draught of nectar, and like the fulfilment of all his desires in bodily form. Who acts: Umra. 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 54

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And Umra-Singh seemed in his eyes like a draught of nectar, and like the fulfilment of all his desires in bodily form.

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**Who acts:** Umra · **What happens:** seem, fulfil, desire · **To what, where:** desires, bodily form

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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), 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:pg68641:4:54
# text = And Umra-Singh seemed in his eyes like a draught of nectar, and like the fulfilment of all his desires in bodily form.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	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 | **seem** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | like the fulfilment of Umra's desires in bodily form; in Umra's eyes like a draught of nectar | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in eye=Attribute |
| 2 | **fulfil** |  |  | Umra's desires in bodily form |  |  |  |  | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **desire** |  | Umra |  |  | bodily form |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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