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title: So they debated about her, and proposed to each other to draw lots f… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So they debated about her, and proposed to each other to draw lots for her. Who acts: drops. 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 every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 59

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So they debated about her, and proposed to each other to draw lots for her.

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**Who acts:** drops · **What happens:** debate, propose, draw · **To what, where:** each, lots

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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 (drops), 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:pg68641:9:59
# text = So they debated about her, and proposed to each other to draw lots for her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	debated	debate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	8	obl	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **debate** | participle | drops *= drop* |  |  |  |  | about spell | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 2 | **propose** | participle | drops *= drop* *not said here* |  | each |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | drops *= drop* *not said here* | lots |  |  |  | for spell | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lot=Result for she=Beneficiary |

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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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