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title: Then by and by those scoffers left him lying, and went every man his… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then by and by those scoffers left him lying, and went every man his way, for the sun was going down. Who acts: scoffers, Umra, sun. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, 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 3, sentence 10

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Then by and by those scoffers left him lying, and went every man his way, for the sun was going down.

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**Who acts:** scoffers, Umra, sun · **What happens:** leave, lie, go, go down · **To what, where:** Umra, man

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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 (scoffers, Umra, sun), 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:pg68641:5:10
# text = Then by and by those scoffers left him lying, and went every man his way, for the sun was going down.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	scoffers	scoffer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | that scoffers | Umra |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | that scoffers *not said here* | every man |  |  |  | Umra's way *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 4 | **go down** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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