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description: For they were almost dead from exhaustion, and continual shouting all day long. Who acts: criers. 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 50

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For they were almost dead from exhaustion, and continual shouting all day long.

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**Who acts:** criers · **What happens:** be, shout · **To what, where:** exhaustion

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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 (criers), 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:pg68641:4:50
# text = For they were almost dead from exhaustion, and continual shouting all day long.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | criers *= crier* |  |  | exhaustion |  | almost, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | criers *= crier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | criers *= crier* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | long *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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