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title: And he laughed aloud: and the thunder of the shout of his laughter r… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he laughed aloud: and the thunder of the shout of his laughter rolled and reverberated, and rattled in the blue hollows of Himálaya, like the sound of a drum. Who acts: Maheshwara, thunder, shout. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 89

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And he laughed aloud: and the thunder of the shout of his laughter rolled and reverberated, and rattled in the blue hollows of Himálaya, like the sound of a drum.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara, thunder, shout · **What happens:** laugh, roll, reverberate, rattle, thunder, shout · **To what, where:** blue hollows, laughter

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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 (Maheshwara, thunder, shout), 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:pg68641:10:89
# text = And he laughed aloud: and the thunder of the shout of his laughter rolled and reverberated, and rattled in the blue hollows of Himálaya, like the sound of a drum.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	reverberated	reverberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Himálaya	Himálaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Maheshwara |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the thunder of the shout of Maheshwara's laughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reverberate** | past | the thunder of the shout of Maheshwara's laughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rattle** | participle | the thunder of the shout of Maheshwara's laughter *not said here* |  |  | the blue hollows of Himálaya |  | the sound of a drum *parataxis* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hollow=Location |
| 5 | **thunder** |  | the shout of Maheshwara's laughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **shout** |  |  | Maheshwara's laughter |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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