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title: [1] The same idea is beautifully put by Butler in Hudibras, where he… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The same idea is beautifully put by Butler in Hudibras, where he calls the sun's light on the moon a Who acts: Butler, Hudibras, 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 51

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\[1\] The same idea is beautifully put by Butler in Hudibras, where he calls the sun's light on the moon a

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**Who acts:** Butler, Hudibras, sun · **What happens:** put, call, light · **To what, where:** same idea, Hudibras, light, moon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Butler, Hudibras, 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:pg68641:10:51
# text = [1] The same idea is beautifully put by Butler in Hudibras, where he calls the sun's light on the moon a
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Butler	Butler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hudibras	Hudibras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive | Butler | the same idea |  | Hudibras |  | 1 *discourse*; beautifully *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Asset a=Goal |
| 2 | **call** | present | Hudibras | the sun's light |  | the moon |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient |
| 3 | **light** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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