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title: For though he is a knave, yet he is a handsome knave, and deserves r… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For though he is a knave, yet he is a handsome knave, and deserves rather contempt and laughter, than punishment and blows. Who acts: father. 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 93

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For though he is a knave, yet he is a handsome knave, and deserves rather contempt and laughter, than punishment and blows.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** be, deserve · **To what, where:** handsome knave, contempt

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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), 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:pg68641:4:93
# text = For though he is a knave, yet he is a handsome knave, and deserves rather contempt and laughter, than punishment and blows.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | father |  |  |  |  | for a knave yet a handsome knave | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | father | a handsome knave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | present |  | contempt and laughter |  |  |  | punishment and blows *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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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