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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 39

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So he said to Umá with a smile: Go now to thy father\[2\], and wait for me: for there is here a matter that demands my attention.

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**Who acts:** antelope, matter, my · **What happens:** say, go, wait, be, demand, attend · **To what, where:** Umá, attention · **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 (antelope, matter, my), 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:pg68641:8:39
# text = So he said to Umá with a smile: Go now to thy father[2], and wait for me: for there is here a matter that demands my attention.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Umá	Umá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | antelope |  | Umá |  |  | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to umá=Recipient |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | to thy father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | a matter |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | a matter | my attention |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attention=Precondition |
| 6 | **attend** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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