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title: And hearing the proclamation, all the citizens and strangers in the… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And hearing the proclamation, all the citizens and strangers in the city marvelled as they listened. Who acts: citizens. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 103

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And hearing the proclamation, all the citizens and strangers in the city marvelled as they listened.

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**Who acts:** citizens · **What happens:** hear, marvell, listen · **To what, where:** proclamation

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (citizens), 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:pg68641:3:103
# text = And hearing the proclamation, all the citizens and strangers in the city marvelled as they listened.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | all citizens in the city and strangers *not said here* | the proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proclamation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **marvell** | past | all citizens in the city and strangers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | past | citizens *= citizen* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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