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title: And then, seized with frenzy, he began to pursue her, calling aloud:… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, seized with frenzy, he began to pursue her, calling aloud: Shrí! Who acts: Umra. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 69

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And then, seized with frenzy, he began to pursue her, calling aloud: Shrí!

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**Who acts:** Umra · **What happens:** seize, begin, pursue, call · **To what, where:** Shrí · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 8. 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:pg68641:10:69
# text = And then, seized with frenzy, he began to pursue her, calling aloud: Shrí!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | with frenzy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pursue** | to-infinitive | Umra *not said here* | Shrí |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | Umra *not said here* | Shrí |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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