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title: And as Umra-Singh stooped down to examine the hole, he saw the Wairá… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 72

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And as Umra-Singh stooped down to examine the hole, he saw the Wairágí again beside him in his old shape, save that he continued to stick out of his mouth the weasel's tongue.

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**Who acts:** Umra · **What happens:** stoop down, examine, see, save, continue, stick out · **To what, where:** hole, Wairágí, old shape, mouth

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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), 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:pg68641:5:72
# text = And as Umra-Singh stooped down to examine the hole, he saw the Wairágí again beside him in his old shape, save that he continued to stick out of his mouth the weasel's tongue.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Wairágí	Wairágí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop down** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **examine** | to-infinitive | Umra *not said here* | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Umra | the Wairágí |  |  | again | beside kind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wairágí=Stimulus |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | Umra *not said here* |  |  | kind's old shape |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **continue** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **stick out** | to-infinitive | Umra *not said here* | Umra's mouth  the weasel's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |

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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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