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title: For expiation follows guilt, as surely as Orion treads on the heels… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For expiation follows guilt, as surely as Orion treads on the heels of Rohini[18]. Who acts: Orion. 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 55

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For expiation follows guilt, as surely as Orion treads on the heels of Rohini\[18\].

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**Who acts:** Orion · **What happens:** follow, tread · **To what, where:** guilt, heels

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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 (Orion), 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:pg68641:2:55
# text = For expiation follows guilt, as surely as Orion treads on the heels of Rohini[18].
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	expiation	expiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Orion	Orion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	treads	tread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Rohini	Rohini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present |  | guilt |  |  |  | for expiation | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme for expiation=Attribute |
| 2 | **tread** | present | Orion |  |  | the heels of Rohini |  | surely *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory |

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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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