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title: But no one could be found who had ever even heard of it, much less s… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But no one could be found who had ever even heard of it, much less seen it. 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 108

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But no one could be found who had ever even heard of it, much less seen it.

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**What happens:** find, hear, see · **To what, where:** one, news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg68641:3:108
# text = But no one could be found who had ever even heard of it, much less seen it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | ever | of news; who *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  | news |  |  |  | less *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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