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title: And then he went from city to city, and from one country to another,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he went from city to city, and from one country to another, eluding the pursuit of the agents sent after him by his father to bring him back, till at last he came to Indirálayá. Who acts: Umra, pursuit. 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 2, sentence 26

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And then he went from city to city, and from one country to another, eluding the pursuit of the agents sent after him by his father to bring him back, till at last he came to Indirálayá.

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**Who acts:** Umra, pursuit · **What happens:** go, elude, send, bring back, come, pursue · **To what, where:** city, Umra, Indirálayá, agents

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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 (Umra, pursuit), 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:pg68641:4:26
# text = And then he went from city to city, and from one country to another, eluding the pursuit of the agents sent after him by his father to bring him back, till at last he came to Indirálayá.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eluding	elude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	agents	agent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	till	till	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Indirálayá	Indirálayá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Umra |  |  | city | then | to city; from one country to another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location to city=Destination |
| 2 | **elude** | gerund | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | the pursuit of the agents |  |  |  | after Umra | by Umra's father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | the pursuit of the agents *not said here* |  | Umra |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **come** | past | Umra |  |  | Indirálayá |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to indirálayá=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **pursue** |  |  | the agents |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «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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