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title: But afterwards, repenting of his fall, he burned out his eyes with a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But afterwards, repenting of his fall, he burned out his eyes with a fiery cane, saying: Perish, ye causes of perishable illusions: and so became blind. Who acts: Rákshasa, ye. 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 82

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But afterwards, repenting of his fall, he burned out his eyes with a fiery cane, saying: Perish, ye causes of perishable illusions: and so became blind.

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**Who acts:** Rákshasa, ye · **What happens:** repent, burn out, say, cause, become · **To what, where:** eyes, Perish · **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 (Rákshasa, ye), 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:pg68641:5:82
# text = But afterwards, repenting of his fall, he burned out his eyes with a fiery cane, saying: Perish, ye causes of perishable illusions: and so became blind.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	repenting	repent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Perish	Perish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	perishable	perishable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	illusions	illusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repent** | gerund | Rákshasa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Rákshasa's fall; afterwards *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn out** | past | Rákshasa | Rákshasa's eyes |  |  |  | with a fiery cane | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with cane=Instrument |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rákshasa *not said here* | Perish |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent perish=Topic |
| 4 | **cause** | present | ye | Perish *not said here* |  |  |  | of perishable illusions | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition perish=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | past | Rákshasa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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