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title: [20] '_man of silence_,' which, according to Kalidas and Bhartrihari… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [20] '_man of silence_,' which, according to Kalidas and Bhartrihari, is the golden rule whether for fools or sages. 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 128

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\[20\] '\_man of silence\_,' which, according to Kalidas and Bhartrihari, is the golden rule whether for fools or sages.

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**What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** golden rule, 20

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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:pg68641:2:128
# text = [20] '_man of silence_,' which, according to Kalidas and Bhartrihari, is the golden rule whether for fools or sages.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Kalidas	Kalidas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Bhartrihari	Bhartrihari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the golden rule |  |  |  | whether fools or sages; which *nsubj*; Kalidas and Bhartrihari *nsubj* | 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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