--- title: And he lay down on the ground, and suddenly abandoning the form of a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And he lay down on the ground, and suddenly abandoning the form of a hermit, became a weasel, which stuck out at Umra-Singh a long red tongue, and entered the ground by a hole, and disappeared. Who acts: kind, weasel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, weasel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:5:71 # text = And he lay down on the ground, and suddenly abandoning the form of a hermit, became a weasel, which stuck out at Umra-Singh a long red tongue, and entered the ground by a hole, and disappeared. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 abandoning abandon VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Umra Umra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Singh Singh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie down** | past | kind | | | the ground | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | | 2 | **abandon** | gerund | kind *not said here* | the form of a hermit | | | | suddenly *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme form=Source | | 3 | **become** | past | kind *not said here* | a weasel | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **stick out** | past | a weasel | a long red tongue | | Umra and Singh | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at umra=Destination | | 5 | **enter** | past | kind *not said here* | the ground | | | | by a hole | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination | | 6 | **disappear** | past | kind *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **form** | | | a hermit | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/72/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/)