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title: Then one day his father said to him: Come, now, I have arranged your… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one day his father said to him: Come, now, I have arranged your marriage with the daughter of my most powerful enemy: so shall we become friends by the method of conciliation. Who acts: father, I, we, your. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 9

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Then one day his father said to him: Come, now, I have arranged your marriage with the daughter of my most powerful enemy: so shall we become friends by the method of conciliation.

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**Who acts:** father, I, we, your · **What happens:** say, come, arrange, become, marry · **To what, where:** Umra, marriage, friends · **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, we, 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:pg68641:4:9
# text = Then one day his father said to him: Come, now, I have arranged your marriage with the daughter of my most powerful enemy: so shall we become friends by the method of conciliation.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	xcomp	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	conciliation	conciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Umra's father |  | Umra |  | then; day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Umra's father *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrange** | present · perfect | I | your marriage |  |  |  | with the daughter of my powerful enemy | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent marriage=Patient with daughter=Instrument |
| 4 | **become** | shall | we | friends |  |  |  | by the method of conciliation | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **marry** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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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