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title: Then said Umra-Singh: Thou puttest a knotty question, and drivest a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Umra-Singh: Thou puttest a knotty question, and drivest a hard bargain; nevertheless, I will give thee an answer, for the sake of my own way and the blue eyes of Shrí. Who acts: Umra, Thou, I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 53

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Then said Umra-Singh: Thou puttest a knotty question, and drivest a hard bargain; nevertheless, I will give thee an answer, for the sake of my own way and the blue eyes of Shrí.

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**Who acts:** Umra, Thou, I · **What happens:** say, put, drive, give · **To what, where:** knotty question, hard bargain, answer, thee · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, Thou, I), 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:pg68641:5:53
# text = Then said Umra-Singh: Thou puttest a knotty question, and drivest a hard bargain; nevertheless, I will give thee an answer, for the sake of my own way and the blue eyes of Shrí.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	puttest	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	knotty	knotty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drivest	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	iobj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | present | Thou | a knotty question |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
| 3 | **drive** | present | Thou *not said here* | a hard bargain |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bargain=Trajectory |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | a answer | thee |  |  | for the sake of my own way and the blue eyes of Shrí; nevertheless *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient answer=Theme for sake=Asset |

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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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