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title: Then hearing this speech of his minister, whose words were always su… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then hearing this speech of his minister, whose words were always suited to the events, the King was excessively delighted. Who acts: King. 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 15

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Then hearing this speech of his minister, whose words were always suited to the events, the King was excessively delighted.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hear, suit, be, speak · **To what, where:** speech, words, minister · **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 (King), 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:pg68641:3:15
# text = Then hearing this speech of his minister, whose words were always suited to the events, the King was excessively delighted.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	excessively	excessively	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the King *not said here* | this speech of child's minister |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suit** | past · passive |  | words |  |  |  | to the events; always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | delighted, excessively *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** |  |  | child's minister |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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