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title: So she sat by the pool, grieving like a female _chakrawáka_ for her… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So she sat by the pool, grieving like a female _chakrawáka_ for her mate, while the sun made, like the enemy of Bali, but three steps over the sky. Who acts: strength, sun. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 41

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So she sat by the pool, grieving like a female \_chakrawáka\_ for her mate, while the sun made, like the enemy of Bali, but three steps over the sky.

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**Who acts:** strength, sun · **What happens:** sit, grieve, make · **To what, where:** enemy

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, sun), 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:pg68641:10:41
# text = So she sat by the pool, grieving like a female _chakrawáka_ for her mate, while the sun made, like the enemy of Bali, but three steps over the sky.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	chakrawáka	chakrawáka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Bali	Bali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sit** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | by the pool; for strength's mate | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pool=Location |
| 2 | **grieve** | gerund | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a female | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past | the sun | the enemy of Bali |  |  |  | three steps over the sky *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enemy=Product |

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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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