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title: And he dived into a disreputable quarter of that city, like a frog i… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he dived into a disreputable quarter of that city, like a frog into a well, and remained there disgusted with life and his relations, plunging into dissipation to drown his grief, and surrounded by gamblers and outcasts, counting the whole world as a straw, supporting himself on his own courage,
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 27

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And he dived into a disreputable quarter of that city, like a frog into a well, and remained there disgusted with life and his relations, plunging into dissipation to drown his grief, and surrounded by gamblers and outcasts, counting the whole world as a straw, supporting himself on his own courage, and his dream.

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**Who acts:** Umra · **What happens:** dive, remain, disgust, plunge, drown, surround · **To what, where:** disreputable quarter, dissipation, grief, whole world, Umra, own courage

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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 (Umra), 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:pg68641:4:27
# text = And he dived into a disreputable quarter of that city, like a frog into a well, and remained there disgusted with life and his relations, plunging into dissipation to drown his grief, and surrounded by gamblers and outcasts, counting the whole world as a straw, supporting himself on his own courage, and his dream.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	disreputable	disreputable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	dissipation	dissipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	gamblers	gambler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl:agent	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	outcasts	outcast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
53	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	52	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | past | Umra |  |  | a disreputable quarter of that city |  | like a frog; into a well; Umra's dream *parataxis* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into quarter=Location |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Umra *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disgust** | participle | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with life and Umra's relations | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **plunge** | gerund | Umra *not said here* |  |  | dissipation |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into dissipation=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **drown** | to-infinitive | Umra *not said here* | Umra's grief |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 6 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gamblers and outcasts *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **count** | gerund |  | the whole world |  |  |  | as a straw | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent world=Theme as straw=Attribute |
| 8 | **support** | gerund |  | Umra |  | Umra's own courage |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 9 | **dream** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «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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