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title: '_and in a dream I saw a lotus fallen from heaven_' — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: '_and in a dream I saw a lotus fallen from heaven_' Who acts: I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 14

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'\_and in a dream I saw a lotus fallen from heaven\_'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, fall · **To what, where:** lotus, dream, heaven

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg68641:1:14
# text = '_and in a dream I saw a lotus fallen from heaven_'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | a lotus |  | a dream |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lotus=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | participle |  | a lotus *not said here* |  | heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial\_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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