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title: And then at last she found her voice, and spoke, and said slowly: Wh… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then at last she found her voice, and spoke, and said slowly: What! is it thou, most doughty traveller? Who acts: Shrí, union. 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 98

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And then at last she found her voice, and spoke, and said slowly: What! is it thou, most doughty traveller?

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**Who acts:** Shrí, union · **What happens:** find, speak, say, be · **To what, where:** voice, last, thou · **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 (Shrí, union), 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:pg68641:7:98
# text = And then at last she found her voice, and spoke, and said slowly: What! is it thou, most doughty traveller?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Shrí | Shrí's voice |  | last | then |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | What  doughty traveller *ccomp*; slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | union | thou |  |  |  |  | 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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