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title: And instantly she stopped her singing and dancing, and clapped her h… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And instantly she stopped her singing and dancing, and clapped her hands, and called to him like a _Kokila_: Come over to me, thou handsome stranger, for I am weary of dancing alone, and I have a question to ask thee. Who acts: cow, thou, I, question. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle o
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 32

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And instantly she stopped her singing and dancing, and clapped her hands, and called to him like a \_Kokila\_: Come over to me, thou handsome stranger, for I am weary of dancing alone, and I have a question to ask thee.

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**Who acts:** cow, thou, I, question · **What happens:** stop, clap, call, come over, stranger, be · **To what, where:** singing, hands, voice, me, question, thee · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, thou, I, question), 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:pg68641:6:32
# text = And instantly she stopped her singing and dancing, and clapped her hands, and called to him like a _Kokila_: Come over to me, thou handsome stranger, for I am weary of dancing alone, and I have a question to ask thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Kokila	Kokila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
31	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
40	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
49	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | cow | cow's singing and dancing |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector singing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **clap** | past | cow *not said here* | cow's hands |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | cow *not said here* |  | voice |  |  | like a Kokila | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **come over** | infinitive | cow *not said here* |  | me |  |  | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **stranger** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dance** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | present | I | a question |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | a question *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 10 | **sing** |  | cow |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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