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title: (Pronounce _dait-_ as _white_. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: (Pronounce _dait-_ as _white_. Who acts: you. 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 72

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(Pronounce \_dait-\_ as \_white\_.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** dait \_

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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 (you), 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:pg68641:6:72
# text = (Pronounce _dait-_ as _white_.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dait	dait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | imperative | you *not said here* | dait \_ |  |  |  | as \_ white \_ | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=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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