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title: And when he grew up, there was no one in that country who could matc… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he grew up, there was no one in that country who could match him in riding, or wrestling, or swordsmanship, or any other martial exercise: so that the people said of him: He looks like the very soul of the nature of a Kshatriya that has assumed a body suited to its deeds. Who acts: Kamalami
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 5

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And when he grew up, there was no one in that country who could match him in riding, or wrestling, or swordsmanship, or any other martial exercise: so that the people said of him: He looks like the very soul of the nature of a Kshatriya that has assumed a body suited to its deeds.

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**Who acts:** Kamalamitra, one, country, people · **What happens:** grow up, be, match, say, look, assume · **To what, where:** Kamalamitra, riding, nature, body · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kamalamitra, one, country, people), 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:pg68641:4:5
# text = And when he grew up, there was no one in that country who could match him in riding, or wrestling, or swordsmanship, or any other martial exercise: so that the people said of him: He looks like the very soul of the nature of a Kshatriya that has assumed a body suited to its deeds.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	swordsmanship	swordsmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
41	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Kshatriya	Kshatriya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past | Kamalamitra |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no one in that country |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **match** | could | that country | Kamalamitra |  | riding or wrestling or swordsmanship or any other martial exercise |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | of Kamalamitra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | present | Kamalamitra |  |  |  |  | like the soul of the nature of a Kshatriya | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **assume** | present · perfect · passive |  | the nature of a Kshatriya |  |  |  | a body *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme body=Eventuality |
| 7 | **suit** | participle |  | a body *not said here* |  |  |  | to country's deeds | tree rules |

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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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