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title: Then the young King bowed before him, and said: Blessed One, let me… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the young King bowed before him, and said: Blessed One, let me continue in this contemplation of thee: that is enough. Who acts: young King, me, that. 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 9

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Then the young King bowed before him, and said: Blessed One, let me continue in this contemplation of thee: that is enough.

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**Who acts:** young King, me, that · **What happens:** bow, say, let, continue, be, contemplate · **To what, where:** me, contemplation, thee · **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 (young King, me, that), 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:pg68641:2:9
# text = Then the young King bowed before him, and said: Blessed One, let me continue in this contemplation of thee: that is enough.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
13	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | the young King |  |  |  | before fire; then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **continue** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | this contemplation of thee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **contemplate** |  |  | thee |  |  |  |  | nom contemplation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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