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title: For such things often come about, And beyond a doubt your Majesty is… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For such things often come about, And beyond a doubt your Majesty is favoured, in being chosen by the deity to be the means of his incarnation. Who acts: deity, the. 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 pr
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 14

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For such things often come about, And beyond a doubt your Majesty is favoured, in being chosen by the deity to be the means of his incarnation.

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**Who acts:** deity, the · **What happens:** come about, favour, choose, be · **To what, where:** Majesty

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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 (deity, the), 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:pg68641:3:14
# text = For such things often come about, And beyond a doubt your Majesty is favoured, in being chosen by the deity to be the means of his incarnation.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come about** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for such things; about, often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **favour** | present · passive |  | your Majesty |  |  |  | beyond a doubt | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund · passive | the deity |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the |  |  |  |  | of child's incarnation; mean *property* | tree rules |

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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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