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title: It means child, woman, beauty, _beauté-de-diable_. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: It means child, woman, beauty, _beauté-de-diable_. Who acts: bálá. 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 75

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It means child, woman, beauty, \_beauté-de-diable\_.

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**Who acts:** bálá · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** child

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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 (bálá), 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:pg68641:6:76
# text = It means child, woman, beauty, _beauté-de-diable_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	beauté	beauté	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	diable	diable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | bálá | child and beauty |  |  |  | beauté diable \_ *parataxis* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |

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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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