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title: But about two hundred yards away, on the right bank, there was a red… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But about two hundred yards away, on the right bank, there was a red spot and leaping flames. Who acts: hundred yards. 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 49

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But about two hundred yards away, on the right bank, there was a red spot and leaping flames.

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**Who acts:** hundred yards · **What happens:** be, leap · **To what, where:** red spot, flames

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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 (hundred yards), 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:pg68641:1:49
# text = But about two hundred yards away, on the right bank, there was a red spot and leaping flames.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | hundred yards | a red spot |  |  |  | the right bank *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leap** | gerund | hundred yards *not said here* | flames |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flame=Trajectory |

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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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