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title: Whence come ye, and whither go ye, and what is this dead golden body… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Whence come ye, and whither go ye, and what is this dead golden body that ye carry as ye go? Who acts: ye. 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 8

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Whence come ye, and whither go ye, and what is this dead golden body that ye carry as ye go?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** come, go, be, carry · **To what, where:** dead golden body

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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 (ye), 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:pg68641:7:8
# text = Whence come ye, and whither go ye, and what is this dead golden body that ye carry as ye go?
1	Whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | dead golden body |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; this *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | present | ye | dead golden body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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