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title: Then his friend laughed in derision, and said: Boasting is useless,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then his friend laughed in derision, and said: Boasting is useless, and in words, all men can do everything, and every woman is another Rambhá[15]. Who acts: friend, Boasting, men, woman. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 45

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Then his friend laughed in derision, and said: Boasting is useless, and in words, all men can do everything, and every woman is another Rambhá\[15\].

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**Who acts:** friend, Boasting, men, woman · **What happens:** laugh, say, be, do · **To what, where:** everything, words, Rambhá · **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 (friend, Boasting, men, woman), 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:pg68641:2:45
# text = Then his friend laughed in derision, and said: Boasting is useless, and in words, all men can do everything, and every woman is another Rambhá[15].
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Boasting	boasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	Rambhá	Rambhá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Tilottamá's friend |  |  |  | then | in derision | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in derision=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tilottamá's friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Boasting |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | can | all men | everything |  | words |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** | present | every woman | another Rambhá |  |  |  | 15 *appos* | 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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