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title: The bats replied: Out on thee, thou impostor! what is this folly? — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: The bats replied: Out on thee, thou impostor! what is this folly? Who acts: bats, thou, impostor. 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 65

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The bats replied: Out on thee, thou impostor! what is this folly?

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**Who acts:** bats, thou, impostor · **What happens:** reply out, impostor, be · **To what, where:** thee, folly

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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 (bats, thou, impostor), 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:pg68641:5:65
# text = The bats replied: Out on thee, thou impostor! what is this folly?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply out** *speech: assert* | past | the bats |  |  | thee |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **impostor** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | impostor | this folly |  |  |  |  | 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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