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title: But now, either abandon my marriage, or if you can, find me a man wh… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But now, either abandon my marriage, or if you can, find me a man who has seen the Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of caste becoming a king's daughter, and he shall be my husband. Who acts: you, man, caste, King. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 63

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But now, either abandon my marriage, or if you can, find me a man who has seen the Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of caste becoming a king's daughter, and he shall be my husband.

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**Who acts:** you, man, caste, King, my · **What happens:** abandon, find, see, become, be, marry · **To what, where:** marriage, me, Land, daughter, husband

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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 (you, man, caste, King), 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:pg68641:3:63
# text = But now, either abandon my marriage, or if you can, find me a man who has seen the Land of the Lotus of the Sun, of caste becoming a king's daughter, and he shall be my husband.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
32	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | imperative | you *not said here* | my marriage |  |  | now |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme marriage=Source |
| 2 | **find** | can | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | a man *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme man=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | a man | the Land of the Lotus of the Sun |  |  |  | caste *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | caste *not said here* | a king's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | shall | King | my husband |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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