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title: [2] _The home of Shrí_, i.e. a blue lotus, which is so called becaus… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] _The home of Shrí_, i.e. a blue lotus, which is so called because the goddess Shrí appeared floating in one at the creation. Who acts: home. 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 cla
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 79

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\[2\] \_The home of Shrí\_, i.e. a blue lotus, which is so called because the goddess Shrí appeared floating in one at the creation.

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**Who acts:** home · **What happens:** call, appear, float · **To what, where:** blue lotus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (home), 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:pg68641:3:79
# text = [2] _The home of Shrí_, i.e. a blue lotus, which is so called because the goddess Shrí appeared floating in one at the creation.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | a blue lotus |  |  |  | because the goddess | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the home of Shrí and a blue lotus |  |  |  |  | 2 *discourse* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | the home of Shrí and a blue lotus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in one at the creation | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Trajectory |

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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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