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title: And finally they came to blows, and fought for her over her body, fi… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And finally they came to blows, and fought for her over her body, filled by the frenzy begotten by her beauty, and the desire of exclusive possession[2]. Who acts: hands. 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 t
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 62

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And finally they came to blows, and fought for her over her body, filled by the frenzy begotten by her beauty, and the desire of exclusive possession\[2\].

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** come, fight, fill, beget, desire · **To what, where:** blows, body, frenzy, exclusive possession

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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 (hands), 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:pg68641:9:62
# text = And finally they came to blows, and fought for her over her body, filled by the frenzy begotten by her beauty, and the desire of exclusive possession[2].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | blows |  | the desire of exclusive possession *parataxis*; finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fight** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for spell; over spell's body | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over body=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | spell's body *not said here* |  |  |  | by the frenzy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **beget** | participle |  | the frenzy *not said here* |  |  |  | by spell's beauty | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **desire** |  |  | exclusive possession |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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