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title: And she saw before her only a ragged Rajpoot, stumbling in his tale,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she saw before her only a ragged Rajpoot, stumbling in his tale, and abashed before her, and unable to support his knavery even by a clever lie. Who acts: lady, ragged Rajpoot, Umra. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, with its depen
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 83

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And she saw before her only a ragged Rajpoot, stumbling in his tale, and abashed before her, and unable to support his knavery even by a clever lie.

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**Who acts:** lady, ragged Rajpoot, Umra · **What happens:** see, stumble, abash, support, tell · **To what, where:** ragged Rajpoot, tale, knavery · **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 (lady, ragged Rajpoot, Umra), 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:pg68641:4:83
# text = And she saw before her only a ragged Rajpoot, stumbling in his tale, and abashed before her, and unable to support his knavery even by a clever lie.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Rajpoot	rajpoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	abashed	abash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	knavery	knavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | lady | a ragged Rajpoot |  |  | before voice |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stumble** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  | Umra's tale |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Trajectory |
| 3 | **abash** | participle | lady *not said here* |  |  |  | before lady |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **support** | to-infinitive | a ragged Rajpoot *not said here* | Umra's knavery |  |  |  | by a clever lie | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knavery=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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