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title: Then as soon as they reached the palace, the King said to Shrí: What… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then as soon as they reached the palace, the King said to Shrí: What is thy name and family? Who acts: things, 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 118

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Then as soon as they reached the palace, the King said to Shrí: What is thy name and family?

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**Who acts:** things, King · **What happens:** reach, say, be · **To what, where:** palace, Shrí, name · **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 (things, 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:pg68641:8:118
# text = Then as soon as they reached the palace, the King said to Shrí: What is thy name and family?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | things *= thing* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  | Shrí |  | then | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shrí=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | thy name and family |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; thy *nmod:poss*; family *conj* | 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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