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title: For who ever saw her equal in beauty, or who ever heard of a maiden… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For who ever saw her equal in beauty, or who ever heard of a maiden objecting to be married[13]? 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 49

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For who ever saw her equal in beauty, or who ever heard of a maiden objecting to be married\[13\]?

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**What happens:** see, hear, object, marry · **To what, where:** equal, beauty, 13

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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: 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:pg68641:3:49
# text = For who ever saw her equal in beauty, or who ever heard of a maiden objecting to be married[13]?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	objecting	object	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  | daughter's equal |  | beauty | ever | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer equal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  |  |  |  | ever | of a maiden; who *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **object** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive |  | 13 |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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