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title: When I was young, sings Bhartrihari, the whole world seemed to me to… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: When I was young, sings Bhartrihari, the whole world seemed to me to be made of woman (_nárimayam_). Who acts: I, whole world. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 115

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When I was young, sings Bhartrihari, the whole world seemed to me to be made of woman (\_nárimayam\_).

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**Who acts:** I, whole world · **What happens:** be, sing, seem, make · **To what, where:** Bhartrihari, me

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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 (I, whole world), 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:pg68641:2:115
# text = When I was young, sings Bhartrihari, the whole world seemed to me to be made of woman (_nárimayam_).
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bhartrihari	Bhartrihari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	nárimayam	nárimayam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present |  | Bhartrihari |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bhartrihari=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the whole world |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the whole world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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