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title: But Umra-Singh suddenly struck at him a blow of his sword, and as lu… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But Umra-Singh suddenly struck at him a blow of his sword, and as luck would have it, he cut off the end of his tongue. Who acts: Umra, Wairágí, sword. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 2

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But Umra-Singh suddenly struck at him a blow of his sword, and as luck would have it, he cut off the end of his tongue.

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**Who acts:** Umra, Wairágí, sword · **What happens:** strike, have, cut off, blow · **To what, where:** blow, end

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, Wairágí, sword), 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:pg68641:6:2
# text = But Umra-Singh suddenly struck at him a blow of his sword, and as luck would have it, he cut off the end of his tongue.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Umra | a blow of Wairágí's sword |  |  |  | at Wairágí; suddenly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | would | Umra *not said here* | blow |  |  |  | as luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **cut off** | past | Wairágí | the end of Wairágí's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector end=Eventuality |
| 4 | **blow** |  | Wairágí's sword |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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