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title: 17[2]), '_Three steps did Wishnu stride: thrice did he set down his… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: 17[2]), '_Three steps did Wishnu stride: thrice did he set down his foot. Who acts: Three steps, epithet. 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 28

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17\[2\]), '\_Three steps did Wishnu stride: thrice did he set down his foot.

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**Who acts:** Three steps, epithet · **What happens:** do, set down · **To what, where:** Wishnu stride, thrice, 17

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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 (Three steps, epithet), 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:pg68641:1:28
# text = 17[2]), '_Three steps did Wishnu stride: thrice did he set down his foot.
1	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	Wishnu	Wishnu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Three steps | Wishnu stride |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set down** | past · do-support | epithet | thrice |  |  |  | epithet's foot *obj* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |

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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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