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title: Metempsychosis, transmigration, everlasting incarnation and re-incar… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Metempsychosis, transmigration, everlasting incarnation and re-incarnation of the immortal soul in body after body, birth after birth: all Hindoo literature is but the kaleidoscopic reiteration of this one identical idea, whose beauty is such that no logic will ever destroy it or oust it in favour o
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 77

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Metempsychosis, transmigration, everlasting incarnation and re-incarnation of the immortal soul in body after body, birth after birth: all Hindoo literature is but the kaleidoscopic reiteration of this one identical idea, whose beauty is such that no logic will ever destroy it or oust it in favour of another.

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**Who acts:** Hindoo literature, beauty, logic · **What happens:** be, destroy, oust · **To what, where:** kaleidoscopic reiteration, beauty, favour, Metempsychosis

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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 (Hindoo literature, beauty, logic), 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:pg68641:1:77
# text = Metempsychosis, transmigration, everlasting incarnation and re-incarnation of the immortal soul in body after body, birth after birth: all Hindoo literature is but the kaleidoscopic reiteration of this one identical idea, whose beauty is such that no logic will ever destroy it or oust it in favour of another.
1	Metempsychosis	metempsychosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	transmigration	transmigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	re-incarnation	re-incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	kaleidoscopic	kaleidoscopic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	reiteration	reiteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	34	conj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	logic	logic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	45	advmod	_	_
45	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	oust	oust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | all Hindoo literature | the kaleidoscopic reiteration |  |  |  | of one identical idea  this | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | beauty |  |  |  |  | such *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | future | no logic | beauty |  |  | ever |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **oust** | infinitive | no logic *not said here* | beauty |  | favour of another |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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