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title: Then time passed away, and the years with the seasons followed each… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then time passed away, and the years with the seasons followed each other like caravans over the desert, and old age and grey hair came and took up their dwelling at the wrinkled root of the King's ear. Who acts: years, old age, age. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknow
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 19

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Then time passed away, and the years with the seasons followed each other like caravans over the desert, and old age and grey hair came and took up their dwelling at the wrinkled root of the King's ear.

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**Who acts:** years, old age, age · **What happens:** pass away, follow, come, take up, dwell, wrinkle · **To what, where:** each, desert, wrinkled root

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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 (years, old age, age), 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:pg68641:3:19
# text = Then time passed away, and the years with the seasons followed each other like caravans over the desert, and old age and grey hair came and took up their dwelling at the wrinkled root of the King's ear.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obj	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	caravans	caravan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | participle |  |  |  |  | then; time | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the years with the seasons | each |  | the desert |  | like caravans | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme over desert=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | old age and grey hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take up** | past | old age and grey hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dwell** | gerund | age |  |  | the wrinkled root of the King's ear |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at root=Location |
| 6 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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