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title: And he turned his back on the pleasures of the senses, and went afar… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he turned his back on the pleasures of the senses, and went afar off, and dwelt alone, among the icy peaks and snowy plateaux that lie around Kailás. Who acts: fire, icy peaks. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 6

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And he turned his back on the pleasures of the senses, and went afar off, and dwelt alone, among the icy peaks and snowy plateaux that lie around Kailás.

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**Who acts:** fire, icy peaks · **What happens:** turn, go, dwell, lie, please · **To what, where:** back, pleasures, icy peaks, Kailás, senses

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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 (fire, icy peaks), 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:pg68641:2:6
# text = And he turned his back on the pleasures of the senses, and went afar off, and dwelt alone, among the icy peaks and snowy plateaux that lie around Kailás.
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	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	plateaux	plateaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Kailás	Kailás	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | fire | fire's back |  | the pleasures of the senses |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | fire *not said here* |  |  | the icy peaks and snowy plateaux |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among peak=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the icy peaks and snowy plateaux |  |  | Kailás |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around kailás=Location |
| 5 | **please** |  |  | the senses |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=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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