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title: For hard by here, in the wood on the hillside, is an aged Sage, name… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For hard by here, in the wood on the hillside, is an aged Sage, named Pápanáshana[16], whose austerities terrify even the gods. Who acts: austerities. 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 47

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For hard by here, in the wood on the hillside, is an aged Sage, named Pápanáshana\[16\], whose austerities terrify even the gods.

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**Who acts:** austerities · **What happens:** be, name, terrify · **To what, where:** aged Sage, wood, gods

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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 (austerities), 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:pg68641:2:47
# text = For hard by here, in the wood on the hillside, is an aged Sage, named Pápanáshana[16], whose austerities terrify even the gods.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	Pápanáshana	Pápanáshana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	austerities	austerity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	terrify	terrify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a aged Sage |  | the wood on the hillside |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a aged Sage *not said here* |  |  |  | Pápanáshana *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **terrify** | present | austerities | the gods |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer |

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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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