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title: The flames were dying down: their work was done. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: The flames were dying down: their work was done. Who acts: flames, work. 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 76

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The flames were dying down: their work was done.

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**Who acts:** flames, work · **What happens:** die down, be, work

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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 (flames, work), 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:pg68641:1:76
# text = The flames were dying down: their work was done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die down** | past · progressive | the flames |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | flames's work |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | flames *= flame* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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