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title: And very soon they were all either dead or dying of wounds, for each… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And very soon they were all either dead or dying of wounds, for each was more eager to destroy another than to protect himself: and they lay all about her unable to move. Who acts: hands, dead. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, with it
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 63

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And very soon they were all either dead or dying of wounds, for each was more eager to destroy another than to protect himself: and they lay all about her unable to move.

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**Who acts:** hands, dead · **What happens:** be, die, destroy, protect, lay, move · **To what, where:** another, elephant

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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, dead), 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:pg68641:9:63
# text = And very soon they were all either dead or dying of wounds, for each was more eager to destroy another than to protect himself: and they lay all about her unable to move.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | all, dead, either, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of wounds | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of wound=Causer |
| 3 | **is** | past | dead |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | dead *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
| 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | dead *not said here* | elephant |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **lay** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **move** | to-infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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