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title: Then suddenly Maheshwara stood before him, and laughed, and said: Re… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly Maheshwara stood before him, and laughed, and said: Remember thy former births. Who acts: Maheshwara. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 107

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Then suddenly Maheshwara stood before him, and laughed, and said: Remember thy former births.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara · **What happens:** stand, laugh, say, remember · **To what, where:** former births · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maheshwara), 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:pg68641:5:107
# text = Then suddenly Maheshwara stood before him, and laughed, and said: Remember thy former births.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Maheshwara |  |  |  | before thing; then | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | Maheshwara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maheshwara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **remember** | infinitive | Maheshwara *not said here* | thy former births |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |

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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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