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title: The Lotus in question is a Sun-lotus '_between the Twilights_,' i.e.… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lotus in question is a Sun-lotus '_between the Twilights_,' i.e., buried in night, and deprived of the presence of the Sun. An allusion to the title of the story is thus introduced. Who acts: Lotus. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 98

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The Lotus in question is a Sun-lotus '\_between the Twilights\_,' i.e., buried in night, and deprived of the presence of the Sun. An allusion to the title of the story is thus introduced.

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**Who acts:** Lotus · **What happens:** be, bury, deprive, introduce, title · **To what, where:** Sun lotus, Twilights, allusion, story

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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 (Lotus), 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:pg68641:3:98
# text = The Lotus in question is a Sun-lotus '_between the Twilights_,' i.e., buried in night, and deprived of the presence of the Sun. An allusion to the title of the story is thus introduced.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Twilights	twilight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Lotus in question | a Sun lotus |  |  |  | the Twilights *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | the Twilights *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deprive** | past | the Lotus in question *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the presence of the Sun. | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of presence=Theme |
| 4 | **introduce** | present · passive |  | a allusion to the title of the story |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **title** |  |  | the story |  |  |  |  | nom title «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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