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title: And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her, or deserved her anger. Who acts: Shrí. 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 92

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And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her, or deserved her anger.

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**Who acts:** Shrí · **What happens:** not tell, offend, deserve, anger · **To what, where:** wife, anger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg68641:9:92
# text = And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her, or deserved her anger.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	offended	offend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Shrí |  |  |  | yet |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offend** | could · perfect | Shrí | wife |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **deserve** | past | Shrí *not said here* | Shrí's anger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **anger** |  | Shrí |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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