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title: [14] The legend of S. Antony is but a western echo of the stories of… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [14] The legend of S. Antony is but a western echo of the stories of these nymphs, whom the jealous gods employed as weapons to destroy the virtue of sages whose accumulated asceticism was becoming _mountainous_ and dangerous. Who acts: accumulated asceticism, 14. A sentence of «The descent of the s
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 121

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\[14\] The legend of S. Antony is but a western echo of the stories of these nymphs, whom the jealous gods employed as weapons to destroy the virtue of sages whose accumulated asceticism was becoming \_mountainous\_ and dangerous.

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**Who acts:** accumulated asceticism, 14 · **What happens:** employ, destroy, accumulate, become, be · **To what, where:** jealous gods, virtue

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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 (accumulated asceticism, 14), 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:pg68641:2:121
# text = [14] The legend of S. Antony is but a western echo of the stories of these nymphs, whom the jealous gods employed as weapons to destroy the virtue of sages whose accumulated asceticism was becoming _mountainous_ and dangerous.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Antony	Antony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
25	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	asceticism	asceticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | participle |  | the jealous gods *not said here* |  |  |  | as weapons | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as weapon=Attribute |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | the virtue of sages |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient |
| 3 | **accumulate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past · progressive | accumulated asceticism |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | 14 |  |  |  |  | the legend of S. *nsubj*; a western echo of the stories of this nymphs  the stories of this nymphs *nsubj*; mountainous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | 14 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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