--- title: But in the land of the Hindoos, marriage is like being born or dying… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: But in the land of the Hindoos, marriage is like being born or dying, a matter of course, a thing necessary, inevitable, essential, _quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus_. Who acts: Hindoos, _, course. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, \_, course), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:3:95 # text = But in the land of the Hindoos, marriage is like being born or dying, a matter of course, a thing necessary, inevitable, essential, _quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus_. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Hindoos Hindoo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 inevitable inevitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 essential essential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 30 _ _ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 quod quod VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 semper semper NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 quod quod VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 35 ubique ubique NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 quod quod VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 38 ab ab NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 omnibus omnibus NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | the Hindoos *not said here* | marriage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **die** | gerund | the Hindoos *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **quod** | present | \_ | semper | | the land of the Hindoos a matter of course and a thing | | | tree rules | | 4 | **quod** | infinitive | \_ *not said here* | ubique | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **quod** | infinitive | \_ *not said here* | ab omnibus | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **matter** | | course | | | | | | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/96/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/)