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title: But all was in vain: for not a man could they find, nor did anyone c… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But all was in vain: for not a man could they find, nor did anyone come forward to say: I have seen that Lotus Country: give me the reward. Who acts: all, man, vain, I. 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
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 110

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But all was in vain: for not a man could they find, nor did anyone come forward to say: I have seen that Lotus Country: give me the reward.

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**Who acts:** all, man, vain, I · **What happens:** be, not find, come forward, say, see, give · **To what, where:** Lotus Country, reward, me · **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: who acts (all, man, vain, I), 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:pg68641:3:110
# text = But all was in vain: for not a man could they find, nor did anyone come forward to say: I have seen that Lotus Country: give me the reward.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **find** | could | a man |  |  |  |  | men *= man* *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come forward** | past · do-support | vain |  |  |  |  | anyone *nsubj*; forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | vain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | Lotus Country |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | vain *not said here* | the reward | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reward=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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