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title: Then she dressed herself in the white pall[2], and went hastily out… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she dressed herself in the white pall[2], and went hastily out of that empty palace, shrinking like a fawn at the echo of her own footsteps, and passed out of the gates, and ran through the deserted streets, down to the very edge of the sea. Who acts: Damayanti. A sentence of «The descent of th
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 75

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Then she dressed herself in the white pall\[2\], and went hastily out of that empty palace, shrinking like a fawn at the echo of her own footsteps, and passed out of the gates, and ran through the deserted streets, down to the very edge of the sea.

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**Who acts:** Damayanti · **What happens:** dress, go, shrink, pass out, run, desert · **To what, where:** Damayanti, white pall, empty palace, gates, deserted streets

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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 (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:pg68641:8:75
# text = Then she dressed herself in the white pall[2], and went hastily out of that empty palace, shrinking like a fawn at the echo of her own footsteps, and passed out of the gates, and ran through the deserted streets, down to the very edge of the sea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pall	pall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	shrinking	shrink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	through	through	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	down	down	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | Damayanti | Damayanti |  | the white pall | then |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | Damayanti *not said here* |  |  | that empty palace |  | hastily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out palace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **shrink** | gerund | Damayanti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a fawn; at the echo of Damayanti's own footsteps | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at echo=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass out** | participle | Damayanti *not said here* | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | past | Damayanti *not said here* |  |  | the deserted streets |  | to the edge of the sea *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to edge=Result |
| 6 | **desert** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «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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