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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 113

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But the word has another technical philosophical significance: it connotes evil, clinging to the soul by reason of sin in a former birth, and begetting the necessity of expiation in another body.

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**Who acts:** word, significance · **What happens:** have, connote, cling, beget · **To what, where:** technical philosophical significance, evil, necessity, body

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, significance), 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:pg68641:2:113
# text = But the word has another technical philosophical significance: it connotes evil, clinging to the soul by reason of sin in a former birth, and begetting the necessity of expiation in another body.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
6	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	connotes	connote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	begetting	beget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	expiation	expiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the word | another technical philosophical significance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent significance=Patient |
| 2 | **connote** | present | significance | evil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cling** | gerund | significance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the soul; by reason of sin in a former birth | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to soul=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **beget** | gerund | the word *not said here* | the necessity of expiation |  | another body |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necessity=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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