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title: And without losing a moment, he carried her off to his palace, as de… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And without losing a moment, he carried her off to his palace, as delighted as if he had conquered the whole earth. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 116

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And without losing a moment, he carried her off to his palace, as delighted as if he had conquered the whole earth.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** lose, carry off, conquer · **To what, where:** Shrí, palace, whole earth

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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 (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:pg68641:8:116
# text = And without losing a moment, he carried her off to his palace, as delighted as if he had conquered the whole earth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry off** | past | King | Shrí |  | King's palace |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **conquer** | past · perfect | King | the whole earth |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |

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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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