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title: For here in Poona it is now, as it was of old in the days of Homer,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For here in Poona it is now, as it was of old in the days of Homer, [Greek: aieì dè puraì nekúon kaíonto thameiaí ....] Who acts: owner. 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 51

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For here in Poona it is now, as it was of old in the days of Homer, \[Greek: aieì dè puraì nekúon kaíonto thameiaí ....\]

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**Who acts:** owner · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Poona

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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 (owner), 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:pg68641:1:51
# text = For here in Poona it is now, as it was of old in the days of Homer, [Greek: aieì dè puraì nekúon kaíonto thameiaí ....]
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Poona	Poona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	aieì	aieì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	dè	dè	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
25	puraì	puraì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	conj	_	_
26	nekúon	nekúon	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	kaíonto	kaíonto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
28	thameiaí	thameiaí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	....	....	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | owner |  |  | Poona | now | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | owner |  |  |  | day | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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