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title: Verily, had the God of Love seen her, he would instantly have abando… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Verily, had the God of Love seen her, he would instantly have abandoned Rati and Príti[6], counting them but as her domestic servants. Who acts: God, Love. 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 o
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 85

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Verily, had the God of Love seen her, he would instantly have abandoned Rati and Príti\[6\], counting them but as her domestic servants.

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**Who acts:** God, Love · **What happens:** have, see, abandon, count · **To what, where:** God, daughter, Rati

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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 (God, Love), 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:pg68641:5:85
# text = Verily, had the God of Love seen her, he would instantly have abandoned Rati and Príti[6], counting them but as her domestic servants.
1	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	Rati	Rati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Príti	Príti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the God of Love |  |  |  | verily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | participle | the God of Love *not said here* | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **abandon** | would · perfect | Love | Rati and Príti |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme rati=Source |
| 4 | **count** | gerund | Love *not said here* | Rati |  |  |  | daughter's domestic servants *conj* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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