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title: And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed: Hast thou a stone within thy breast, instead of a heart, that my beauty cannot touch thee? Who acts: elephant, beauty. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, with its dep
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 58

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And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed: Hast thou a stone within thy breast, instead of a heart, that my beauty cannot touch thee?

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**Who acts:** elephant, beauty · **What happens:** seize, shake, exclaim, have, not touch · **To what, where:** Ulupí, thou, thee

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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 (elephant, beauty), 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:pg68641:6:58
# text = And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed: Hast thou a stone within thy breast, instead of a heart, that my beauty cannot touch thee?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | elephant | Ulupí |  |  |  | by the arm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | past | elephant *not said here* | Ulupí |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | thou |  |  |  | within thy breast; a stone *obj*; a heart *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | can | my beauty | thee |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Co-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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