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title: Then the astrologers said, gloomily: She has abandoned the body, and… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the astrologers said, gloomily: She has abandoned the body, and gone somewhere else. Who acts: astrologers, colour. 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 6

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Then the astrologers said, gloomily: She has abandoned the body, and gone somewhere else.

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**Who acts:** astrologers, colour · **What happens:** say, abandon, go · **To what, where:** body · **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 (astrologers, colour), 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:pg68641:8:6
# text = Then the astrologers said, gloomily: She has abandoned the body, and gone somewhere else.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	astrologers	astrologer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gloomily	gloomily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | the astrologers |  |  |  | then | gloomily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **abandon** | present · perfect | colour | the body |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme body=Source |
| 3 | **go** | participle | colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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