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title: Now in the roof of that temple there lived a number of the caste[4]… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in the roof of that temple there lived a number of the caste[4] of bats, that never left the temple precincts, And seeing the owl, they said to the old woman: Who art thou, and what kind of animal is this? Who acts: bats, precincts, kind. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 58

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Now in the roof of that temple there lived a number of the caste\[4\] of bats, that never left the temple precincts, And seeing the owl, they said to the old woman: Who art thou, and what kind of animal is this?

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**Who acts:** bats, precincts, kind · **What happens:** live, not leave, see, say, be · **To what, where:** number, roof, temple precincts, owl, old woman, this · **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 (bats, precincts, kind), 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:pg68641:5:58
# text = Now in the roof of that temple there lived a number of the caste[4] of bats, that never left the temple precincts, And seeing the owl, they said to the old woman: Who art thou, and what kind of animal is this?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	precincts	precinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
45	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	46	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a number of the caste |  | the roof of that temple; there | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme number=Location |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | past | bats | the temple precincts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precinct=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | the owl |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | precincts *= precinct* |  | the old woman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | what kind of animal | this |  |  |  |  | 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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