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title: And he said to himself: She may well ask, and now, but for one other… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said to himself: She may well ask, and now, but for one other pair, her eyes need fear no rivals. Who acts: Shrí, cow, eyes. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, 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 4, sentence 41

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And he said to himself: She may well ask, and now, but for one other pair, her eyes need fear no rivals.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, cow, eyes · **What happens:** say, ask, need · **To what, where:** Shrí, fear · **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 (Shrí, cow, eyes), 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:pg68641:6:41
# text = And he said to himself: She may well ask, and now, but for one other pair, her eyes need fear no rivals.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
24	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Shrí |  | Shrí |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | cow |  |  |  | now | well *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | present | cow's eyes | fear and no rivals |  |  |  | for one other pair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fear=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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