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title: And taking counsel with his astrologers and Brahman sages skilled in… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And taking counsel with his astrologers and Brahman sages skilled in names and their applications, he gave to his daughter the auspicious name of Shrí[4]. Who acts: King, names. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, with its dependency tre
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 17

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And taking counsel with his astrologers and Brahman sages skilled in names and their applications, he gave to his daughter the auspicious name of Shrí\[4\].

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**Who acts:** King, names · **What happens:** take, skill, give, apply, name · **To what, where:** counsel, Brahman sages, names, auspicious name, daughter, Shrí

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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, names), 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:pg68641:3:17
# text = And taking counsel with his astrologers and Brahman sages skilled in names and their applications, he gave to his daughter the auspicious name of Shrí[4].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	astrologers	astrologer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Brahman	brahman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	applications	application	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	auspicious	auspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | counsel |  |  |  | with King's astrologers and Brahman sages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **skill** | participle |  | Brahman sages *not said here* |  | names and names's applications |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | King | the auspicious name of Shrí | King's daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to daughter=Recipient |
| 4 | **apply** |  | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | Shrí |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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