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title: But as he wavered, the thought of his friend's derision came back in… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he wavered, the thought of his friend's derision came back into Kamalamitra's mind, and filled him with anger. Who acts: hand, thought, friend, Kamalamitra. 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 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 71

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But as he wavered, the thought of his friend's derision came back into Kamalamitra's mind, and filled him with anger.

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**Who acts:** hand, thought, friend, Kamalamitra · **What happens:** waver, come back, fill, think, deride, mind · **To what, where:** mind, hand, derision

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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 (hand, thought, friend, Kamalamitra), 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:pg68641:2:71
# text = But as he wavered, the thought of his friend's derision came back into Kamalamitra's mind, and filled him with anger.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wavered	waver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Kamalamitra	Kamalamitra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waver** | past | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | past | the thought of hand's friend's derision |  |  | Kamalamitra's mind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the thought of hand's friend's derision *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | with anger | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with anger=Instrument |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | hand's friend's derision |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **deride** |  | hand's friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom derision «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Kamalamitra |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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