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title: And there he remained, living at first upon leaves, and then upon sm… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And there he remained, living at first upon leaves, and then upon smoke, and finally upon air, performing penances of appalling severity, till after a hundred years[4] that Lord of Creatures was moved to compassion. Who acts: fire, air, penances. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of bir
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 7

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And there he remained, living at first upon leaves, and then upon smoke, and finally upon air, performing penances of appalling severity, till after a hundred years\[4\] that Lord of Creatures was moved to compassion.

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**Who acts:** fire, air, penances · **What happens:** remain, live, perform, appal, move, compassion · **To what, where:** smoke, penances, severity, Lord

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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, air, penances), 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:pg68641:2:7
# text = And there he remained, living at first upon leaves, and then upon smoke, and finally upon air, performing penances of appalling severity, till after a hundred years[4] that Lord of Creatures was moved to compassion.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
23	penances	penance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	appalling	appal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Creatures	Creatures	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	compassion	compassion	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | fire |  |  | smoke; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon smoke=Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon leaves | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location |
| 3 | **perform** | gerund | air | penances |  |  | year |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Theme |
| 4 | **appal** | gerund | penances *not said here* | severity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | past · passive |  | that Lord of Creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **compassion** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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