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title: But when she learned the object of his coming, the Queen said: _Arya… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she learned the object of his coming, the Queen said: _Aryaputra_[7], it is useless. Who acts: Shrí, King, Queen, object. 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 24

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But when she learned the object of his coming, the Queen said: \_Aryaputra\_\[7\], it is useless.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, King, Queen, object · **What happens:** learn, come, say, be · **To what, where:** object · **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 (Shrí, King, Queen, object), 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:pg68641:3:24
# text = But when she learned the object of his coming, the Queen said: _Aryaputra_[7], it is useless.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Aryaputra	Aryaputra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Shrí | the object |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | King | the object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location object=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | Aryaputra *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | object |  |  |  |  | useless *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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