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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 1

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\[4\] A \_rajpoot\_ means only \_the son of a king\_, and it is to be observed that there were rajpoots in India long before the present 'Rajpoots' ever came there.

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**Who acts:** 4, rajpoots, present · **What happens:** mean, observe, be, come · **To what, where:** son, \_

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (4, rajpoots, present), 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:pg68641:5:1
# text = [4] A _rajpoot_ means only _the son of a king_, and it is to be observed that there were rajpoots in India long before the present 'Rajpoots' ever came there.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	rajpoot	rajpoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
27	rajpoots	rajpoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Rajpoots	rajpoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 4 | the son of a king |  |  |  | a \_ rajpoot \_ *nsubj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic |
| 2 | **observe** | present · passive |  | \_ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | rajpoots in India |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the present |  |  | there | ever | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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