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title: And it seemed to Kamalamitra that he stood in a pool of colour forme… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And it seemed to Kamalamitra that he stood in a pool of colour formed by the essence of all the blue lotuses in the world. Who acts: it, Maheshwara. 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 26

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And it seemed to Kamalamitra that he stood in a pool of colour formed by the essence of all the blue lotuses in the world.

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**Who acts:** it, Maheshwara · **What happens:** seem, stand, form · **To what, where:** Kamalamitra, pool, colour

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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 (it, Maheshwara), 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:pg68641:2:26
# text = And it seemed to Kamalamitra that he stood in a pool of colour formed by the essence of all the blue lotuses in the world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kamalamitra	Kamalamitra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lotuses	lotus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | it |  | Kamalamitra |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Maheshwara |  |  | a pool of colour |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location |
| 3 | **form** | participle |  | colour *not said here* |  |  |  | by the essence of all blue lotuses in the world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by essence=Location |

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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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