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title: And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Cre… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Creatures animate and inanimate: What orders has the Lord of All for his servants, and why are we now summoned? Who acts: honey, Creatures. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 48

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And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Creatures animate and inanimate: What orders has the Lord of All for his servants, and why are we now summoned?

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**Who acts:** honey, Creatures · **What happens:** muster, enquire, animate, order, summon · **To what, where:** Lord, All, we

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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 (honey, Creatures), 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:pg68641:8:48
# text = And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Creatures animate and inanimate: What orders has the Lord of All for his servants, and why are we now summoned?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mustered	muster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	enquired	enquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	animate	animate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	inanimate	inanimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **muster** | past · perfect | honey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enquire** *speech: other* | past | honey |  |  |  |  | of that Lord; humbly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient |
| 3 | **animate** | present | Creatures | that Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lord=Patient |
| 4 | **order** | present |  | All  the Lord |  |  |  | for Lord's servants; What *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent all=Theme for servant=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **summon** | present · passive |  | we |  |  | now |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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