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title: [12] There is here an untranslateable play on the word _bhoga_: whic… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [12] There is here an untranslateable play on the word _bhoga_: which means both the coil of a snake and enjoyment. Who acts: untranslateable play, bhoga. 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 118

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\[12\] There is here an untranslateable play on the word \_bhoga\_: which means both the coil of a snake and enjoyment.

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**Who acts:** untranslateable play, bhoga · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** bhoga, coil

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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 (untranslateable play, bhoga), 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:pg68641:2:118
# text = [12] There is here an untranslateable play on the word _bhoga_: which means both the coil of a snake and enjoyment.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	untranslateable	untranslateable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bhoga	bhoga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coil	coil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a untranslateable play on the word | bhoga |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bhoga | the coil of a snake and enjoyment |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Topic |

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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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