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title: And he left her to perform his kingly duties, intending to return wi… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he left her to perform his kingly duties, intending to return without delay, and thinking the fruit of his birth attained. Who acts: King, thinking. 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 pragmatics of e
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 16

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And he left her to perform his kingly duties, intending to return without delay, and thinking the fruit of his birth attained.

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**Who acts:** King, thinking · **What happens:** leave, perform, intend, return, think, attain · **To what, where:** vain, kingly duties, fruit

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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 (King, thinking), 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:pg68641:9:16
# text = And he left her to perform his kingly duties, intending to return without delay, and thinking the fruit of his birth attained.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | King | vain |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King's kingly duties |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme |
| 3 | **intend** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without delay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the fruit of King's birth |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fruit=Theme |
| 6 | **attain** | past | thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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