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title: And having completed his arrangements, he allowed the chain of event… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And having completed his arrangements, he allowed the chain of events to take its course. Who acts: Master, chain. 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 98

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And having completed his arrangements, he allowed the chain of events to take its course.

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**Who acts:** Master, chain · **What happens:** complete, allow, take, arrange · **To what, where:** arrangements, chain, course

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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 (Master, chain), 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:pg68641:2:98
# text = And having completed his arrangements, he allowed the chain of events to take its course.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux	_	_
3	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | gerund · perfect |  | Master's arrangements |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrangement=Eventuality |
| 2 | **allow** | past | Master | the chain of events |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chain=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chain of events *not said here* | chain's course |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 4 | **arrange** |  | Master |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrangement «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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