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title: And he said again: When one of you shall slay the other, the curse s… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said again: When one of you shall slay the other, the curse shall end. Who acts: fire, one, curse. 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 85

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And he said again: When one of you shall slay the other, the curse shall end.

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**Who acts:** fire, one, curse · **What happens:** say, slay, end · **To what, where:** other · **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 (fire, one, curse), 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:pg68641:2:85
# text = And he said again: When one of you shall slay the other, the curse shall end.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | fire |  |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | shall | one of you | the other |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 3 | **end** | shall | the curse |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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