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title: Then those two unhappy lovers looked at each other in mute despair. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then those two unhappy lovers looked at each other in mute despair. Who acts: two unhappy lovers. 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 86

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Then those two unhappy lovers looked at each other in mute despair.

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**Who acts:** two unhappy lovers · **What happens:** look

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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 (two unhappy lovers), 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:pg68641:2:86
# text = Then those two unhappy lovers looked at each other in mute despair.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	mute	mute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | that two unhappy lovers |  |  |  | then | in mute despair; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |

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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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