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title: And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about looking for a blue-eyed beauty? Who acts: one, struck vagabond. 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 28

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And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about looking for a blue-eyed beauty?

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**Who acts:** one, struck vagabond · **What happens:** say, strike, be, roam, look · **To what, where:** struck vagabond · **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 (one, struck vagabond), 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:pg68641:8:28
# text = And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about looking for a blue-eyed beauty?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	roams	roam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moon *compound* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | this struck vagabond |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roam** | present | this struck vagabond |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | this struck vagabond *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a eyed beauty; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beauty=Theme |

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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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