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title: Then said the Rishi's daughter: And who, then, would fetch for my fa… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the Rishi's daughter: And who, then, would fetch for my father his sacrificial fuel, or water to cook his cakes of rice and milk? Who acts: daughter. 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 pragmati
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 90

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Then said the Rishi's daughter: And who, then, would fetch for my father his sacrificial fuel, or water to cook his cakes of rice and milk?

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** say, fetch, cook · **To what, where:** sacrificial fuel, cakes · **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 (daughter), 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:pg68641:5:90
# text = Then said the Rishi's daughter: And who, then, would fetch for my father his sacrificial fuel, or water to cook his cakes of rice and milk?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rishi	Rishi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 Rishi's daughter |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fetch** | would |  | Father's sacrificial fuel or water |  |  | then | for my father; who *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme for father=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **cook** | to-infinitive |  | Father's cakes of rice and milk |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |

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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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