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title: And then they went together to the forest, to find that old ascetic. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then they went together to the forest, to find that old ascetic. Who acts: travellers. 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 65

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And then they went together to the forest, to find that old ascetic.

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**Who acts:** travellers · **What happens:** go together, find · **To what, where:** forest, old ascetic

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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 (travellers), 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:pg68641:2:65
# text = And then they went together to the forest, to find that old ascetic.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go together** | past | travellers *= traveller* |  |  | the forest | then | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | that old ascetic |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Topic |

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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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