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title: [7] A pretty term employed by ladies in addressing their lords: 'son… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [7] A pretty term employed by ladies in addressing their lords: 'son of an _arya_, a gentleman.' 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 86

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\[7\] A pretty term employed by ladies in addressing their lords: 'son of an \_arya\_, a gentleman.'

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**What happens:** employ, address · **To what, where:** pretty term, lords

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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:pg68641:3:86
# text = [7] A pretty term employed by ladies in addressing their lords: 'son of an _arya_, a gentleman.'
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	arya	Arya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | participle |  | a pretty term  a gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  | by ladies | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **address** | gerund |  |  | ladies's lords |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Destination |

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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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