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title: The Hindoos are possessed by it; it is their hereditary heirloom, _K… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hindoos are possessed by it; it is their hereditary heirloom, _Kramágatam_, the legacy from an immemorial past: it is all that they have left. Who acts: kind. 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
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 79

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The Hindoos are possessed by it; it is their hereditary heirloom, \_Kramágatam\_, the legacy from an immemorial past: it is all that they have left.

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**Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** possess, be · **To what, where:** Hindoos, hereditary heirloom

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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 (kind), 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:pg68641:1:79
# text = The Hindoos are possessed by it; it is their hereditary heirloom, _Kramágatam_, the legacy from an immemorial past: it is all that they have left.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	heirloom	heirloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Kramágatam	Kramágatam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	immemorial	immemorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **possess** | present · passive |  | the Hindoos |  |  |  | by kind | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | kind | embodiment's hereditary heirloom and the legacy from a immemorial past |  |  |  | embodiment *nmod:poss*; Kramágatam *appos*; the legacy from a immemorial past *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | kind |  |  |  |  | embodiment *nsubj*; leave *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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