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title: Or have you come, like me, merely _dekhne ke wáste_, to see the sun… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Or have you come, like me, merely _dekhne ke wáste_, to see the sun set, and 'eat air'? Who acts: you. 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 every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 57

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Or have you come, like me, merely \_dekhne ke wáste\_, to see the sun set, and 'eat air'?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, see, eat · **To what, where:** dekhne, sun set, air

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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 (you), 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:pg68641:1:57
# text = Or have you come, like me, merely _dekhne ke wáste_, to see the sun set, and 'eat air'?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dekhne	dekhne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obl	_	_
12	ke	ke	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	wáste	wáste	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | you | dekhne |  |  |  | like me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the sun set |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive |  | air |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

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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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