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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 21

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Then in his delight, Umra-Singh let go his hold, and clapped his hands.

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**Who acts:** Umra · **What happens:** let, go, clap, delight, hold · **To what, where:** delight, hold, hands

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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), 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:pg68641:7:21
# text = Then in his delight, Umra-Singh let go his hold, and clapped his hands.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Umra |  |  | Umra's delight | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Umra *not said here* | Umra's hold |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme |
| 3 | **clap** | past | Umra *not said here* | Umra's hands |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 4 | **delight** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **hold** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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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