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title: [5] Nothing can translate _bálá_. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [5] Nothing can translate _bálá_. Who acts: Nothing. 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 74

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\[5\] Nothing can translate \_bálá\_.

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**Who acts:** Nothing · **What happens:** translate · **To what, where:** bálá

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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 (Nothing), 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:pg68641:6:75
# text = [5] Nothing can translate _bálá_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	translate	translate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bálá	bálá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | can | Nothing | bálá |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bálá=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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