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title: Then she said: O Ocean, art thou too parted from someone, that thou… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said: O Ocean, art thou too parted from someone, that thou heavest long drawn sighs? Who acts: wind, thou. 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 78

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Then she said: O Ocean, art thou too parted from someone, that thou heavest long drawn sighs?

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**Who acts:** wind, thou · **What happens:** say, part, draw · **To what, where:** O Ocean, sighs · **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 (wind, thou), 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:pg68641:8:78
# text = Then she said: O Ocean, art thou too parted from someone, that thou heavest long drawn sighs?
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	heavest	heave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | wind | O Ocean |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **part** | past | thou |  |  |  |  | from someone | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from someone=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | present · passive |  | sighs |  |  |  | thou *nsubj:pass*; long *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sigh=Result |

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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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