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title: And as I stood upon the bridge, I could hear a faint din of tom-toms… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And as I stood upon the bridge, I could hear a faint din of tom-toms coming from the distant city of the Peshwas. Who acts: I, tom toms. 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 42

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And as I stood upon the bridge, I could hear a faint din of tom-toms coming from the distant city of the Peshwas.

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**Who acts:** I, tom toms · **What happens:** stand, hear, come, din · **To what, where:** bridge, faint din, distant city

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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, tom toms), 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:pg68641:1:42
# text = And as I stood upon the bridge, I could hear a faint din of tom-toms coming from the distant city of the Peshwas.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	toms	tom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Peshwas	Peshwa	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | I |  |  | the bridge |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bridge=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | could | I | a faint din of tom toms |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer din=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | tom toms *not said here* |  |  | the distant city of the Peshwas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **din** |  | tom toms |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=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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