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title: And the women flocked around him like flies about honey, for their h… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And the women flocked around him like flies about honey, for their hearts were trampled to pieces, like lotuses, by the wild-elephant of his glorious youth, and their souls were intoxicated with the nectar of the beauty of his figure, and followed him about like captives chained in rows. Who acts: w
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 7

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And the women flocked around him like flies about honey, for their hearts were trampled to pieces, like lotuses, by the wild-elephant of his glorious youth, and their souls were intoxicated with the nectar of the beauty of his figure, and followed him about like captives chained in rows.

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**Who acts:** women, wild elephant, Kamalamitra · **What happens:** flock, trample, intoxicate, follow, chain, figure · **To what, where:** hearts, souls, Kamalamitra, captives, rows

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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 (women, wild elephant, Kamalamitra), 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:pg68641:4:7
# text = And the women flocked around him like flies about honey, for their hearts were trampled to pieces, like lotuses, by the wild-elephant of his glorious youth, and their souls were intoxicated with the nectar of the beauty of his figure, and followed him about like captives chained in rows.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lotuses	lotus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	about	about	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
52	like	like	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
54	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | past | the women |  |  |  |  | around Kamalamitra; like flies about honey | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trample** | past · passive | the wild elephant of Kamalamitra's glorious youth | women's hearts |  |  |  | to pieces and lotuses | tree rules |
| 3 | **intoxicate** | past · passive |  | women's souls |  |  |  | with the nectar of the beauty of Kamalamitra's figure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the women *not said here* | Kamalamitra |  |  |  | like captives; about *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **chain** | participle |  | captives *not said here* |  | rows |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **figure** |  | Kamalamitra |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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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