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description: I wrote the last lines of this translation late one evening, and I walked out in the dusk to the bridge across the river, about half a mile away. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 39

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I wrote the last lines of this translation late one evening, and I walked out in the dusk to the bridge across the river, about half a mile away.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write, walk out · **To what, where:** last lines, river

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg68641:1:39
# text = I wrote the last lines of this translation late one evening, and I walked out in the dusk to the bridge across the river, about half a mile away.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | I | the last lines of this translation  one evening |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 2 | **walk out** | past | I |  |  | the river | dusk | to the bridge; half mile *parataxis*; out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=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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