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title: Its meaning can best be learned from the third section of the Centur… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Its meaning can best be learned from the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari, devoted to it. Who acts: world. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 10

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Its meaning can best be learned from the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari, devoted to it.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** learn, devote, mean, section · **To what, where:** meaning, third section, world, Centuries

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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:pg68641:6:10
# text = Its meaning can best be learned from the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari, devoted to it.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Centuries	Century	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Bhartrihari	Bhartrihari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | can · passive |  | world's meaning |  | the third section of the Centuries of Bhartrihari |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from section=Source |
| 2 | **devote** | participle |  |  |  | world |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to it=Goal |
| 3 | **mean** |  | world |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **section** |  |  | the Centuries of Bhartrihari |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=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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