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title: Now that ship belonged to a great merchant captain, who was returnin… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that ship belonged to a great merchant captain, who was returning home from a trading voyage. Who acts: ship, great merchant captain. 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 81

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Now that ship belonged to a great merchant captain, who was returning home from a trading voyage.

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**Who acts:** ship, great merchant captain · **What happens:** belong, return · **To what, where:** trading voyage

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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 (ship, great merchant captain), 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:pg68641:8:81
# text = Now that ship belonged to a great merchant captain, who was returning home from a trading voyage.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | that ship |  |  |  | now | to a great merchant captain | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past · progressive | a great merchant captain |  |  | a trading voyage |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from voyage=Initial\_Location |

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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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