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title: Now there is no help for me, save in stratagem, and the natural craf… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there is no help for me, save in stratagem, and the natural craft of woman. Who acts: help, you. 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 8

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Now there is no help for me, save in stratagem, and the natural craft of woman.

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**Who acts:** help, you · **What happens:** be, save, craft · **To what, where:** natural craft, stratagem, woman

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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 (help, you), 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:pg68641:9:8
# text = Now there is no help for me, save in stratagem, and the natural craft of woman.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no help for me |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | the natural craft of woman |  | stratagem |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **craft** |  |  | woman |  |  |  |  | nom craft «act 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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