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title: For who can compare the description with a reality which neither he… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For who can compare the description with a reality which neither he nor anyone else ever saw? Who acts: reality. 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 41

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For who can compare the description with a reality which neither he nor anyone else ever saw?

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**Who acts:** reality · **What happens:** compare, saw · **To what, where:** description

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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 (reality), 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:pg68641:4:41
# text = For who can compare the description with a reality which neither he nor anyone else ever saw?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc:preconj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	_
15	else	else	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | can |  | the description |  |  |  | with a reality; who *nsubj* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent description=Patient with reality=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **saw** |  | a reality |  |  |  | ever | Land *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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