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title: Then said the King: Thou didst well to forsake that miserable trader… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the King: Thou didst well to forsake that miserable trader for me. Who acts: King, Thou. 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 120

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Then said the King: Thou didst well to forsake that miserable trader for me.

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**Who acts:** King, Thou · **What happens:** say, do, forsake · **To what, where:** miserable trader · **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 (King, Thou), 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:pg68641:8:120
# text = Then said the King: Thou didst well to forsake that miserable trader for me.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | Thou |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forsake** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | that miserable trader |  |  |  | for me | 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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