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title: Then said the Wairágí: Learn now from me, another portion of thy own… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the Wairágí: Learn now from me, another portion of thy own way. Who acts: Wairágí. 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 94

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Then said the Wairágí: Learn now from me, another portion of thy own way.

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**Who acts:** Wairágí · **What happens:** say, learn · **To what, where:** portion · **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), 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:pg68641:5:94
# text = Then said the Wairágí: Learn now from me, another portion of thy own way.
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	Wairágí	Wairágí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 Wairágí |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | infinitive | the Wairágí *not said here* | another portion of thy own way |  |  | now | from me | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source |

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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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