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title: And she exclaimed: Hark! hark! to this high-caste hero; listen to hi… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she exclaimed: Hark! hark! to this high-caste hero; listen to his lay of a Lotus Land! Who acts: lady. 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 85

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And she exclaimed: Hark! hark! to this high-caste hero; listen to his lay of a Lotus Land!

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** exclaim, listen · **To what, where:** Hark, high caste hero

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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), 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:pg68641:4:85
# text = And she exclaimed: Hark! hark! to this high-caste hero; listen to his lay of a Lotus Land!
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	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	hark	hark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | lady | Hark | high caste hero  this |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hark=Topic to hero=Recipient |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to Hark's lay of a Lotus Land | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lay=Theme |

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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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