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title: But Shrí shuddered at her touch, for it suggested evil to her sleepi… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But Shrí shuddered at her touch, for it suggested evil to her sleeping soul. Who acts: Shrí, touch. 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 73

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But Shrí shuddered at her touch, for it suggested evil to her sleeping soul.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, touch · **What happens:** shudder, suggest, touch · **To what, where:** evil, sleeping soul

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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, touch), 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:pg68641:9:73
# text = But Shrí shuddered at her touch, for it suggested evil to her sleeping soul.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shuddered	shudder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shudder** | past | Shrí |  |  |  |  | at Shrí's touch | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at touch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | touch | evil | Shrí's sleeping soul |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent evil=Topic to soul=Recipient |
| 3 | **touch** |  | Shrí |  |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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