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title: And yet, stay not away too long, for thou art good to look upon, and… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet, stay not away too long, for thou art good to look upon, and well-fitted to be my husband, were I not already the wife of another man. Who acts: you, thou, I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 12

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And yet, stay not away too long, for thou art good to look upon, and well-fitted to be my husband, were I not already the wife of another man.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, I · **What happens:** not stay away, be, look, fit, not be · **To what, where:** husband, wife

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, I), 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:pg68641:9:12
# text = And yet, stay not away too long, for thou art good to look upon, and well-fitted to be my husband, were I not already the wife of another man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	already	already	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | away, long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fit** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my husband |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | past | I | the wife |  |  |  | of another man | tree rules |

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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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