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description: [13] A case, perhaps, not absolutely unknown in the west: though beauty, like a fortress, must always like to be flattered by a siege. Who acts: 13, beauty, siege. 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 prag
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 94

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\[13\] A case, perhaps, not absolutely unknown in the west: though beauty, like a fortress, must always like to be flattered by a siege.

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**Who acts:** 13, beauty, siege · **What happens:** case, like, flatter

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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 (13, beauty, siege), 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:pg68641:3:94
# text = [13] A case, perhaps, not absolutely unknown in the west: though beauty, like a fortress, must always like to be flattered by a siege.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **case** |  | 13 |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | must | beauty and a fortress |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **flatter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a siege |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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