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title: Now it happened, by the ordinance of fate, that long ago, when he wa… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened, by the ordinance of fate, that long ago, when he was himself a child, exactly the same thing had happened to that old King. Who acts: it, Umra, same thing. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 103

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Now it happened, by the ordinance of fate, that long ago, when he was himself a child, exactly the same thing had happened to that old King.

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**Who acts:** it, Umra, same thing · **What happens:** happen, be, ordain · **To what, where:** Umra, child, old King, fate

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Umra, same thing), 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:pg68641:5:103
# text = Now it happened, by the ordinance of fate, that long ago, when he was himself a child, exactly the same thing had happened to that old King.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now | by the ordinance of fate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ordinance=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Umra | Umra |  |  |  | a child *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | the same thing | a child *not said here* | old King  that |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ordain** |  |  | fate |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «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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