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title: Maheshwara said: It depends not on time, but knowledge: and even an… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Maheshwara said: It depends not on time, but knowledge: and even an instant can bring it when ten thousand years have failed. Who acts: Maheshwara, It, instant, thousand years. 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
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 113

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Maheshwara said: It depends not on time, but knowledge: and even an instant can bring it when ten thousand years have failed.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara, It, instant, thousand years · **What happens:** say, not depend, bring, fail · **To what, where:** knowledge · **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, It, instant, thousand years), 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:pg68641:5:113
# text = Maheshwara said: It depends not on time, but knowledge: and even an instant can bring it when ten thousand years have failed.
1	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maheshwara |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **depend** | present | It | knowledge |  |  | time |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | can | a instant | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **fail** | present · perfect | thousand years |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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