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title: [18] An astronomical simile: the ninth and tenth signs of the lunar… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [18] An astronomical simile: the ninth and tenth signs of the lunar zodiac. 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 126

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\[18\] An astronomical simile: the ninth and tenth signs of the lunar zodiac.

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**What happens:** sign · **To what, where:** 18, lunar zodiac

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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: 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:pg68641:2:126
# text = [18] An astronomical simile: the ninth and tenth signs of the lunar zodiac.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | the lunar zodiac |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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