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title: And I fled to thee for refuge, and not for frivolity: for yonder mer… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And I fled to thee for refuge, and not for frivolity: for yonder merchant would have made me his wife by force. Who acts: I. 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 125

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And I fled to thee for refuge, and not for frivolity: for yonder merchant would have made me his wife by force.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** flee, make · **To what, where:** thee, wife, me

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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 (I), 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:pg68641:8:125
# text = And I fled to thee for refuge, and not for frivolity: for yonder merchant would have made me his wife by force.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	TO	_	5	case	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	frivolity	frivolity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | I |  |  | thee |  | for refuge; frivolity *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | would · perfect |  | merchant's wife | me |  |  | for merchant; by force | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary wife=Product for merchant=Asset |

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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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