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description: [4] This is a sort of Hindoo _façon de parler_: it must not be supposed to make him any the older. Who acts: This, Hindoo. 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 107

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\[4\] This is a sort of Hindoo \_façon de parler\_: it must not be supposed to make him any the older.

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**Who acts:** This, Hindoo · **What happens:** be, not suppose, make, any · **To what, where:** sort, parler, Hindoo, older, 4

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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 (This, Hindoo), 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:pg68641:2:107
# text = [4] This is a sort of Hindoo _façon de parler_: it must not be supposed to make him any the older.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	façon	façon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	parler	parler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	any	any	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a sort |  |  |  | of Hindoo; façon and parler *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **suppose** | must · passive |  | parler |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Hindoo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **any** | infinitive | Hindoo *not said here* | the older |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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