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title: So his father was annoyed, and said: What is this folly, and whence… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So his father was annoyed, and said: What is this folly, and whence can I procure another bridegroom? Who acts: father, I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, 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 2, sentence 11

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So his father was annoyed, and said: What is this folly, and whence can I procure another bridegroom?

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**Who acts:** father, I · **What happens:** be, say, procure · **To what, where:** folly, bridegroom · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg68641:4:11
# text = So his father was annoyed, and said: What is this folly, and whence can I procure another bridegroom?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	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 | **is** | past | Umra's father |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | this folly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **procure** | can | I | another bridegroom |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme |

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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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