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title: Or was my minister right, and is she really some deity in disguise? — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Or was my minister right, and is she really some deity in disguise? Who acts: minister, daughter. 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 50

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Or was my minister right, and is she really some deity in disguise?

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**Who acts:** minister, daughter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deity, disguise

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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 (minister, daughter), 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:pg68641:3:50
# text = Or was my minister right, and is she really some deity in disguise?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | my minister |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | daughter | some deity |  | disguise |  |  | 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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