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title: But Shrí said: Say not pool, but ocean, on which the sun shines for… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But Shrí said: Say not pool, but ocean, on which the sun shines for ever, yet never makes it any less: for such is my love to my husband. Who acts: Shrí, sun. 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 pragmatic
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 3

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But Shrí said: Say not pool, but ocean, on which the sun shines for ever, yet never makes it any less: for such is my love to my husband.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, sun · **What happens:** say, not say, shine, not make, be · **To what, where:** pool, sun · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shrí, sun), 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:pg68641:9:3
# text = But Shrí said: Say not pool, but ocean, on which the sun shines for ever, yet never makes it any less: for such is my love to my husband.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | Shrí |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | pool |  |  |  | ocean *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pool=Topic |
| 3 | **shine** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present | Shrí *not said here* | sun |  |  |  | less *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for my such love; to my husband; my *nmod:poss* | 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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