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title: And he said to himself: This is a strange story, and the conduct of… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said to himself: This is a strange story, and the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine is inscrutable. Who acts: King, This, conduct. 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 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 66

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And he said to himself: This is a strange story, and the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine is inscrutable.

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**Who acts:** King, This, conduct · **What happens:** say, be, conduct · **To what, where:** King, strange story, mysterious daughter · **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 (King, This, conduct), 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:pg68641:3:66
# text = And he said to himself: This is a strange story, and the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine is inscrutable.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	inscrutable	inscrutable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | King |  | King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | a strange story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine |  |  |  |  | inscrutable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **conduct** |  |  | this mysterious daughter of mine |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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