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title: Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter?… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter? tell me. Who acts: consort, cajoling tone. 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 40

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Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter? tell me.

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**Who acts:** consort, cajoling tone · **What happens:** say, cajole, be, tell · **To what, where:** antelope, cajoling tone, matter, me · **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 (consort, cajoling tone), 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:pg68641:8:40
# text = Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter? tell me.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cajoling	cajole	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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* | past | antelope's consort |  | antelope | a cajoling tone | then |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cajole** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a cajoling tone | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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