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title: For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again i… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again into the power of the King, or, it may be, of someone still worse. Who acts: Shrí, I, city. 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 39

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For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again into the power of the King, or, it may be, of someone still worse.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, I, city · **What happens:** say, remain, fall, be · **To what, where:** Shrí, city, power · **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, I, city), 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:pg68641:9:39
# text = For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again into the power of the King, or, it may be, of someone still worse.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	acl:relcl	_	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 |  | Shrí |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 2 | **remain** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  | the city |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | may | I |  |  | the power of the King | again | of someone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into power=Initial\_Location of someone=Destination |
| 4 | **be** | may | city |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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