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title: But Umra-Singh leaned towards her, with hungry eyes, for his soul ye… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But Umra-Singh leaned towards her, with hungry eyes, for his soul yearned for the repetition of a forgotten past. Who acts: Umra, soul, forgotten past. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, 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 5, sentence 101

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But Umra-Singh leaned towards her, with hungry eyes, for his soul yearned for the repetition of a forgotten past.

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**Who acts:** Umra, soul, forgotten past · **What happens:** learn, yearn, forget, repeat

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, soul, forgotten past), 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:pg68641:7:101
# text = But Umra-Singh leaned towards her, with hungry eyes, for his soul yearned for the repetition of a forgotten past.
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	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	yearned	yearn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | towards Shrí; with hungry eyes | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **yearn** | past | Umra's soul |  |  |  |  | for the repetition of a forgotten past | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for repetition=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repeat** |  | a forgotten past |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event 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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