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title: So as they stood there, waiting, gradually that old sage came to him… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So as they stood there, waiting, gradually that old sage came to himself: for he felt that his meditations were being disturbed by something or other. Who acts: old, old sage, Anushayiní. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 77

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So as they stood there, waiting, gradually that old sage came to himself: for he felt that his meditations were being disturbed by something or other.

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**Who acts:** old, old sage, Anushayiní · **What happens:** stand, wait, come, feel, disturb, meditate · **To what, where:** Anushayiní, meditations

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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 (old, old sage, Anushayiní), 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:pg68641:2:77
# text = So as they stood there, waiting, gradually that old sage came to himself: for he felt that his meditations were being disturbed by something or other.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	meditations	meditation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	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 | **stand** | past | old |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | old *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | that old sage |  | Anushayiní |  |  | gradually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Anushayiní |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **disturb** | past · passive |  | Anushayiní's meditations |  |  |  | by something | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **meditate** |  | Anushayiní |  |  |  |  |  | nom meditation «cognition intransitive»: 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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