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title: Is she not now of ripe age, and does not a grown-up maiden in the ho… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Is she not now of ripe age, and does not a grown-up maiden in the house bring upon herself and her relations infamy in this world and the next? Who acts: refuse, house. 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
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 28

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Is she not now of ripe age, and does not a grown-up maiden in the house bring upon herself and her relations infamy in this world and the next?

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**Who acts:** refuse, house · **What happens:** not be, not grow up, bring

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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 (refuse, house), 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:pg68641:3:28
# text = Is she not now of ripe age, and does not a grown-up maiden in the house bring upon herself and her relations infamy in this world and the next?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	infamy	infamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | refuse |  |  |  | of ripe age; now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **grow up** | present · do-support | refuse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | the house |  |  |  |  | upon refuse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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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