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title: And Umra-Singh looked down into them as into two dark pools, and he… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And Umra-Singh looked down into them as into two dark pools, and he felt them pounding his heart like a pair of fists[4]. Who acts: Umra, Shrí. 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 every clau
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 40

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And Umra-Singh looked down into them as into two dark pools, and he felt them pounding his heart like a pair of fists\[4\].

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**Who acts:** Umra, Shrí · **What happens:** look down, feel, pound · **To what, where:** Umra, heart

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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, Shrí), 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:pg68641:6:40
# text = And Umra-Singh looked down into them as into two dark pools, and he felt them pounding his heart like a pair of fists[4].
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	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	pounding	pound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | into eyes *= eye*; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Shrí | Umra |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **pound** | gerund | Shrí *not said here* | Shrí's heart |  |  |  | like a pair of fists | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Product |

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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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