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title: Then said Maheshwara: This is well said: nevertheless, ask of me som… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Maheshwara: This is well said: nevertheless, ask of me some boon. Who acts: Maheshwara. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 10

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Then said Maheshwara: This is well said: nevertheless, ask of me some boon.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara · **What happens:** say, ask · **To what, where:** This, boon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maheshwara), 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:pg68641:2:10
# text = Then said Maheshwara: This is well said: nevertheless, ask of me some boon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maheshwara |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | This |  |  |  | nevertheless, well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | some boon |  |  |  | of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |

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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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