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title: But Umra-Singh laughed at them all, and even outdid the moon-crested… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But Umra-Singh laughed at them all, and even outdid the moon-crested god[3], in that he drank continually the deadly poison of the ocean of their seductions, without even staining his throat. Who acts: Umra, women. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dr
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 8

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But Umra-Singh laughed at them all, and even outdid the moon-crested god\[3\], in that he drank continually the deadly poison of the ocean of their seductions, without even staining his throat.

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**Who acts:** Umra, women · **What happens:** laugh, outdo, crest, drink, stain, seduce · **To what, where:** crested god, deadly poison, throat

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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, women), 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:pg68641:4:8
# text = But Umra-Singh laughed at them all, and even outdid the moon-crested god[3], in that he drank continually the deadly poison of the ocean of their seductions, without even staining his throat.
1	But	but	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	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	outdid	outdo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	crested	crest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	seductions	seduction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	staining	stain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | at women *= woman* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **outdo** | past | Umra *not said here* | the crested god |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme |
| 3 | **crest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moon *compound* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | past | Umra | the deadly poison of the ocean of women's seductions |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient |
| 5 | **stain** | gerund | Umra *not said here* | Umra's throat |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent throat=Destination |
| 6 | **seduce** |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom seduction «act 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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