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title: His white clothes were stained and splashed all over with red, for t… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: His white clothes were stained and splashed all over with red, for the Holi festival had left its mark on him. Who acts: festival. 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 55

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His white clothes were stained and splashed all over with red, for the Holi festival had left its mark on him.

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**Who acts:** festival · **What happens:** stain, splash, leave, mark · **To what, where:** white clothes, Holi festival

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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 (festival), 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:pg68641:1:55
# text = His white clothes were stained and splashed all over with red, for the Holi festival had left its mark on him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	splashed	splash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Holi	Holi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | past · passive |  | name's white clothes |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **splash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with red; over *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with red=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Holi festival |  |  |  | on name; festival's mark *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mark=Attribute |
| 4 | **mark** |  | festival |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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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