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title: And her heart beat violently, as if to say: Let me abandon thy body,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And her heart beat violently, as if to say: Let me abandon thy body, and so escape the danger coming on thee. Who acts: heart, me. 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 95

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And her heart beat violently, as if to say: Let me abandon thy body, and so escape the danger coming on thee.

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**Who acts:** heart, me · **What happens:** beat, say, let, abandon, escape, come · **To what, where:** me, body, danger, thee · **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 (heart, me), 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:pg68641:9:95
# text = And her heart beat violently, as if to say: Let me abandon thy body, and so escape the danger coming on thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | Shrí's heart |  |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Shrí's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **abandon** | infinitive | me *not said here* | thy body |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme body=Source |
| 5 | **escape** | infinitive |  | the danger |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thou=Location |

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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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