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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 48

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Then instantly, without hesitation, he went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease your crying, and take me to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land.

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**Who acts:** father, I, your · **What happens:** go up, say, cease, take, see, cry · **To what, where:** criers, crying, me, King, Lotus Land · **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, your), 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:pg68641:4:48
# text = Then instantly, without hesitation, he went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease your crying, and take me to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | father |  |  |  | then | without hesitation; to the criers; instantly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father *not said here* |  | criers *= crier* |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cease** | infinitive |  | your crying |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crying=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | me | the King |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | Lotus Land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cry** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crying «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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