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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 53

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Then at last Shrí said: Dear father, do not be angry, and I will tell you the truth.

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**Who acts:** Dear father, I · **What happens:** say, not be, tell · **To what, where:** last Shrí, truth, you · **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 (Dear father, I), 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:pg68641:3:53
# text = Then at last Shrí said: Dear father, do not be angry, and I will tell you the truth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dear father |  |  | last Shrí | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support | Dear father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | the truth | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |

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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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