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title: Then she called to the _mahout_: Come nearer, O driver of the elepha… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called to the _mahout_: Come nearer, O driver of the elephant: for I am anxious to taste the delight of riding on an elephant. Who acts: deliverance, I, riding. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, with its dependency tree and th
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 109

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Then she called to the \_mahout\_: Come nearer, O driver of the elephant: for I am anxious to taste the delight of riding on an elephant.

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**Who acts:** deliverance, I, riding · **What happens:** call, come, be, taste, delight · **To what, where:** mahout, driver, delight · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deliverance, I, riding), 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:pg68641:8:109
# text = Then she called to the _mahout_: Come nearer, O driver of the elephant: for I am anxious to taste the delight of riding on an elephant.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mahout	mahout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | deliverance |  | the mahout |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mahout=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | deliverance *not said here* | driver of the elephant |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the delight of riding on a elephant |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme delight=Attribute |
| 5 | **delight** |  | riding on a elephant |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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