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description: The Wairágí said: Son, what art thou doing here, in a wood full of nothing but trees and Rákshasas[2], and dark as the Hair of the Great God, of which it is an earthly copy? Who acts: Wairágí, thou. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, wi
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 40

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The Wairágí said: Son, what art thou doing here, in a wood full of nothing but trees and Rákshasas\[2\], and dark as the Hair of the Great God, of which it is an earthly copy?

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**Who acts:** Wairágí, thou · **What happens:** say, do, be · **To what, where:** wood, earthly copy · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wairágí, thou), 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:pg68641:5:40
# text = The Wairágí said: Son, what art thou doing here, in a wood full of nothing but trees and Rákshasas[2], and dark as the Hair of the Great God, of which it is an earthly copy?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wairágí	Wairágí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	ccomp	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obl	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Rákshasas	Rákshasas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | the Wairágí |  |  |  |  | Son *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | thou |  |  | a wood; here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Wairágí | a earthly copy |  |  |  | of the Great God | 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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