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title: Did not Sítá recover Ráma, and Shakuntalá, Dushyanta, and Damayanti… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Did not Sítá recover Ráma, and Shakuntalá, Dushyanta, and Damayanti cross the ocean of separation, and repose on the shore in the shape of the embraces of Nala? Who acts: Sítá, Damayanti. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, with its depe
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 72

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Did not Sítá recover Ráma, and Shakuntalá, Dushyanta, and Damayanti cross the ocean of separation, and repose on the shore in the shape of the embraces of Nala?

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**Who acts:** Sítá, Damayanti · **What happens:** not recover, cross, repose, embrace · **To what, where:** Ráma, ocean, shore, Nala

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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 (Sítá, Damayanti), 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:pg68641:8:72
# text = Did not Sítá recover Ráma, and Shakuntalá, Dushyanta, and Damayanti cross the ocean of separation, and repose on the shore in the shape of the embraces of Nala?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	Sítá	Sítá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Ráma	Ráma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Shakuntalá	Shakuntalá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Dushyanta	Dushyanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Damayanti	Damayanti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Nala	Nala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recover** | past · do-support | Sítá | Ráma and Shakuntalá and Dushyanta |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ráma=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | present | Damayanti | the ocean of separation |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient |
| 3 | **repose** | infinitive | Sítá *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | in the shape of the embraces of Nala | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 4 | **embrace** |  |  | Nala |  |  |  |  | nom embrace «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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