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title: And she caught hold of the King to save herself from falling, and th… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she caught hold of the King to save herself from falling, and the King almost fainted from excess of joy, and the nectar of her touch. Who acts: Shrí, King. 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 the pragmat
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 115

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And she caught hold of the King to save herself from falling, and the King almost fainted from excess of joy, and the nectar of her touch.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, King · **What happens:** catch, save, fall, faint, hold, touch · **To what, where:** hold, Shrí, nectar, King

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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 (Shrí, King), 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:pg68641:8:115
# text = And she caught hold of the King to save herself from falling, and the King almost fainted from excess of joy, and the nectar of her touch.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Shrí | hold of the King |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Shrí *not said here* | Shrí |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | Shrí *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **faint** | past | the King | the nectar of Shrí's touch |  |  |  | from excess of joy; almost *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from excess=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the King |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **touch** |  | Shrí |  |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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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