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title: And meanwhile Shrí grew from a child into a girl, and at length the… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And meanwhile Shrí grew from a child into a girl, and at length the dawn of her womanhood broke. Who acts: Shrí, dawn. 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 20

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And meanwhile Shrí grew from a child into a girl, and at length the dawn of her womanhood broke.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, dawn · **What happens:** grow, break · **To what, where:** length

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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 (Shrí, dawn), 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:pg68641:3:20
# text = And meanwhile Shrí grew from a child into a girl, and at length the dawn of her womanhood broke.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Shrí |  |  |  |  | from a child; into a girl *result*; meanwhile *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into girl=Result |
| 2 | **break** | past | the dawn of Shrí's womanhood |  |  | length |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |

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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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