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title: It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpre… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpretation of the _three strides_: but this is not the place to examine their views. Who acts: that, doctors, this. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun., with its dependency tree a
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 85

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It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpretation of the \_three strides\_: but this is not the place to examine their views.

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**Who acts:** that, doctors, this · **What happens:** observe, learn, differ, not be, examine, interpret · **To what, where:** Cp, place, views, three strides · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that, doctors, this), 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:pg68641:1:85
# text = It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpretation of the _three strides_: but this is not the place to examine their views.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | should · passive |  | Cp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **differ** | present | doctors |  |  |  |  | as the interpretation of the three strides | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | this | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **examine** | to-infinitive |  | doctors's views |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 6 | **interpret** |  |  | the three strides |  |  |  |  | nom interpretation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **view** |  | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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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