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title: And he plunged into their sea, and was drowned in it, and the whole… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he plunged into their sea, and was drowned in it, and the whole world seemed to him to be made of lotus blue[9]. Who acts: purpose, whole world. 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 32

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And he plunged into their sea, and was drowned in it, and the whole world seemed to him to be made of lotus blue\[9\].

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**Who acts:** purpose, whole world · **What happens:** plunge, drown, seem, make · **To what, where:** sea, purpose

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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 (purpose, whole world), 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:pg68641:2:32
# text = And he plunged into their sea, and was drowned in it, and the whole world seemed to him to be made of lotus blue[9].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunge** | past | purpose |  |  | eyes's sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **drown** | past · passive | purpose *not said here* |  |  | sea |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the whole world |  | purpose |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the whole world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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