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title: [3] Because, though Shiwa drank the _kálakuta_ or deadly sea-poison,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] Because, though Shiwa drank the _kálakuta_ or deadly sea-poison, with impunity, still it left its mark on his throat, and dyed it blue. Who acts: Shiwa, impunity. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 102

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\[3\] Because, though Shiwa drank the \_kálakuta\_ or deadly sea-poison, with impunity, still it left its mark on his throat, and dyed it blue.

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**Who acts:** Shiwa, impunity · **What happens:** drink, leave, dye, mark · **To what, where:** 3, mark, throat, impunity

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shiwa, impunity), 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:pg68641:4:102
# text = [3] Because, though Shiwa drank the _kálakuta_ or deadly sea-poison, with impunity, still it left its mark on his throat, and dyed it blue.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Shiwa	Shiwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kálakuta	kálakuta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	impunity	impunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dyed	dye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Shiwa | 3 |  |  |  | the kálakuta or deadly sea poison and impunity *obj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kálakuta=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | impunity | impunity's mark |  | Shiwa's throat | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on throat=Location |
| 3 | **dye** | past | Shiwa *not said here* | impunity |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **mark** |  | impunity |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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