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description: Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes[1]? Who acts: desert. 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 37

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Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes\[1\]?

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**Who acts:** desert · **What happens:** have, die · **To what, where:** thou

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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 (desert), 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:pg68641:8:37
# text = Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes[1]?
1	Hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | thou |  |  |  | the desert and no pity for the antelope *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | present · progressive | the desert and no pity for the antelope |  |  |  |  | of thirst; for the water and thine eyes | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |

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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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