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title: Moreover, I have a mind to amuse myself with their adventures[25]. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, I have a mind to amuse myself with their adventures[25]. Who acts: I, affairs. 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 95

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Moreover, I have a mind to amuse myself with their adventures\[25\].

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**Who acts:** I, affairs · **What happens:** have, amuse, adventure · **To what, where:** mind, myself

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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 (I, affairs), 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:pg68641:2:95
# text = Moreover, I have a mind to amuse myself with their adventures[25].
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a mind |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 2 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | with affairs's adventures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **adventure** |  | affairs *= affair* |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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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