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title: And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like a black antelo… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like a black antelope smitten by the hunters with a mortal wound, and surrounded by a troop of chattering monkeys. Who acts: Umra, troop. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its depen
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 9

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And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like a black antelope smitten by the hunters with a mortal wound, and surrounded by a troop of chattering monkeys.

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**Who acts:** Umra, troop · **What happens:** look, smite, surround, chatter · **To what, where:** black antelope, monkeys

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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 (Umra, troop), 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:pg68641:5:9
# text = And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like a black antelope smitten by the hunters with a mortal wound, and surrounded by a troop of chattering monkeys.
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	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mockers	mocker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | in the midst of that base mockers like a black antelope | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in midst=Theme |
| 2 | **smite** | participle |  | a black antelope *not said here* |  |  |  | by the hunters; with a mortal wound | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument |
| 3 | **surround** | participle | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a troop *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **chatter** | gerund | a troop *not said here* | monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=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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