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title: Absolutely Hindoo in its form and spirit, it is for an Englishman fu… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Absolutely Hindoo in its form and spirit, it is for an Englishman full of associations, and instinct with that philosophical mythology, scraps and fragments of which are familiar to him in the story of the Fall and the poetry of Milton, in many an old fairy tale, in some touches of Pythagoras and Pl
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 33

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Absolutely Hindoo in its form and spirit, it is for an Englishman full of associations, and instinct with that philosophical mythology, scraps and fragments of which are familiar to him in the story of the Fall and the poetry of Milton, in many an old fairy tale, in some touches of Pythagoras and Plato, and some old religious legends.

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**Who acts:** Hindoo, dress · **What happens:** be, form, touch · **To what, where:** Hindoo, story, Pythagoras

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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 (Hindoo, dress), 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:pg68641:1:33
# text = Absolutely Hindoo in its form and spirit, it is for an Englishman full of associations, and instinct with that philosophical mythology, scraps and fragments of which are familiar to him in the story of the Fall and the poetry of Milton, in many an old fairy tale, in some touches of Pythagoras and Plato, and some old religious legends.
1	Absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	associations	association	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	instinct	instinct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Milton	Milton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	nsubj	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
55	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Pythagoras	Pythagoras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	Plato	Plato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
62	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	65	det	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
64	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hindoo in dress's form and spirit |  |  |  |  | of associations; dress *nsubj*; instinct with that philosophical mythology  scraps and fragments *parataxis*; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  | Hindoo | the story of the Fall and the poetry of Milton |  | of fragments; a old fairy tale and some touches of Pythagoras and Plato and some old religious legends *conj*; familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  | dress |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **touch** |  |  | Pythagoras and Plato |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event 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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