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title: Then as they stood together, the old ascetic spoke and cursed them,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then as they stood together, the old ascetic spoke and cursed them, saying slowly: Irreverent lovers, now shall that beauty which occasioned this insolence meet with its appropriate reward. Who acts: arms, old ascetic, beauty, meet. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 82

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Then as they stood together, the old ascetic spoke and cursed them, saying slowly: Irreverent lovers, now shall that beauty which occasioned this insolence meet with its appropriate reward.

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**Who acts:** arms, old ascetic, beauty, meet · **What happens:** stand together, speak, curse, say, occasion, reward · **To what, where:** Irreverent lovers, arms, insolence meet · **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 (arms, old ascetic, beauty, meet), 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:pg68641:2:82
# text = Then as they stood together, the old ascetic spoke and cursed them, saying slowly: Irreverent lovers, now shall that beauty which occasioned this insolence meet with its appropriate reward.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Irreverent	irreverent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	meet	meet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand together** | past | arms *= arm* | Irreverent lovers |  |  | then | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the old ascetic |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **curse** | past | arms *= arm* *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | arms *= arm* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **occasion** | past | that beauty | this insolence meet |  |  |  | with meet's appropriate reward | tree rules |
| 6 | **reward** |  | meet |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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