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title: And when he saw a female figure standing alone on the shore, he came… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he saw a female figure standing alone on the shore, he came quickly in a boat to take her captive. Who acts: captain, female figure. 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 82

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And when he saw a female figure standing alone on the shore, he came quickly in a boat to take her captive.

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**Who acts:** captain, female figure · **What happens:** see, stand, come, take · **To what, where:** female figure, shore, boat, captive

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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 (captain, female figure), 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:pg68641:8:82
# text = And when he saw a female figure standing alone on the shore, he came quickly in a boat to take her captive.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | captain | a female figure |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | a female figure *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | captain |  |  | a boat |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* | wind's captive |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=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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