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title: So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those ado… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those adorers the nectar of his presence, that Lord whose left half is his wife remembered his promise to the Daughter of the Mountain, and returned to the snowy peak of Kailàs, to tell her the story and coax away her sulks. Who acts: curse,
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 57

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So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those adorers the nectar of his presence, that Lord whose left half is his wife remembered his promise to the Daughter of the Mountain, and returned to the snowy peak of Kailàs, to tell her the story and coax away her sulks.

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**Who acts:** curse, sported wife, wife · **What happens:** sport, bestow, leave, be, remember, return · **To what, where:** nectar, adorers, sported wife, promise, story, sulks · **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 (curse, sported wife, wife), 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:pg68641:8:57
# text = So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those adorers the nectar of his presence, that Lord whose left half is his wife remembered his promise to the Daughter of the Mountain, and returned to the snowy peak of Kailàs, to tell her the story and coax away her sulks.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sported	sport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
7	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	adorers	adorer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	appos	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Daughter	Daughter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Kailàs	Kailàs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	iobj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	coax	coax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	away	away	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	sulks	sulk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sport** | past · perfect | curse |  |  |  |  | sufficiently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bestow** | participle | curse *not said here* | the nectar of curse's presence |  | that adorers |  | that Lord *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | curse's sported wife |  |  |  | curse *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remember** | past | curse's sported wife | curse's promise |  |  |  | to the Daughter of the Mountain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent promise=Theme to daughter=be' |
| 6 | **return** | past | curse's sported wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the snowy peak of Kailàs *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to peak=Result |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the story and coax | wife's sulks |  |  | wife *iobj*; away *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **promise** |  | curse |  |  |  |  | to the Daughter of the Mountain | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 9 | **sulk** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom sulk «feeling 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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