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title: And we worship the ever victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephant… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And we worship the ever victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants, whose fierce glare consumes the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles, as a forest fire shrivels the blades of dry grass_[1]. Who acts: we, fierce glare, forest fire. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 4

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And we worship the ever victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants, whose fierce glare consumes the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles, as a forest fire shrivels the blades of dry grass\_\[1\].

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**Who acts:** we, fierce glare, forest fire · **What happens:** worship, consume, oppose, shrivel · **To what, where:** victorious trunk, innumerable hosts, blades

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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 (we, fierce glare, forest fire), 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:pg68641:2:4
# text = And we worship the ever victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants, whose fierce glare consumes the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles, as a forest fire shrivels the blades of dry grass_[1].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worship	worship	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	consumes	consume	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	shrivels	shrivel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worship** | present | we | the victorious trunk of the Elephant of Elephants |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consume** | present | fierce glare | the innumerable hosts of opposing obstacles |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Asset |
| 3 | **oppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shrivel** | present | a forest fire | the blades of dry grass |  |  |  | 1 *flat* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blade=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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