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title: The Wairágí said: All my life I have tried to discover the Way of th… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wairágí said: All my life I have tried to discover the Way of the World, and the Way of Woman, and the Way of Emancipation[3], and yet could never hit on the truth as to any one of them. Who acts: Wairágí, Way. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dr
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 49

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The Wairágí said: All my life I have tried to discover the Way of the World, and the Way of Woman, and the Way of Emancipation\[3\], and yet could never hit on the truth as to any one of them.

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**Who acts:** Wairágí, Way · **What happens:** say, try, discover, not hit · **To what, where:** life, Way, truth · **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, Way), 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:pg68641:5:49
# text = The Wairágí said: All my life I have tried to discover the Way of the World, and the Way of Woman, and the Way of Emancipation[3], and yet could never hit on the truth as to any one of them.
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	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	45	case	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | the Way of Woman and the Way of Emancipation *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** | present · perfect · passive |  | my life |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the Way of the World |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **hit** | could | the Way of Emancipation *not said here* |  |  | the truth | yet | as any one of rajpoots | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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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