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title: Then he said to himself: What is this wonder, and who can it be that… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said to himself: What is this wonder, and who can it be that lies here, alone in this empty hall? Who acts: moonlight, wonder. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, 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 5, sentence 47

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Then he said to himself: What is this wonder, and who can it be that lies here, alone in this empty hall?

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**Who acts:** moonlight, wonder · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** moonlight, wonder · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moonlight, wonder), 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:pg68641:7:47
# text = Then he said to himself: What is this wonder, and who can it be that lies here, alone in this empty hall?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
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	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	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 | moonlight |  | moonlight |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | this wonder and this empty hall |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; this empty hall *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | can | this wonder and this empty hall |  |  | here |  | body *nsubj*; lie *property* | tree rules |

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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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