---
title: Is there any such land in the world, as this Land of the Lotus of th… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there any such land in the world, as this Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of which in all my dominions, haunted by merchants and strangers from every quarter of the earth, no one has ever even so much as heard? Who acts: such land, one. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Un
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/115/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/) / 115

# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 115

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Is there any such land in the world, as this Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of which in all my dominions, haunted by merchants and strangers from every quarter of the earth, no one has ever even so much as heard?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** such land, one · **What happens:** be, haunt, have, hear · **To what, where:** dominions, quarter, much

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (such land, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:3:115
# text = Is there any such land in the world, as this Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of which in all my dominions, haunted by merchants and strangers from every quarter of the earth, no one has ever even so much as heard?
1	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obj	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | any such land in the world |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **haunt** | participle |  | my dominions of this Land of the Lotus of the Sun and my dominions of this Land of the Lotus and all dominions *not said here* |  | every quarter of the earth |  | by merchants and strangers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present | no one | much |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/114/)
- next →: [A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/1/)
- ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/)