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description: And he celebrated the birth of his daughter with extraordinary magnificence, and gave gold and villages to Brahmans and the poor. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 16

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And he celebrated the birth of his daughter with extraordinary magnificence, and gave gold and villages to Brahmans and the poor.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** celebrate, give · **To what, where:** birth, gold, Brahmans

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg68641:3:16
# text = And he celebrated the birth of his daughter with extraordinary magnificence, and gave gold and villages to Brahmans and the poor.
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	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past | King | the birth of King's daughter with extraordinary magnificence |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | King *not said here* | gold and villages | Brahmans |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to brahman=Recipient |

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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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