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title: Now by the ordinance of fate it so happened, that at that moment the… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Now by the ordinance of fate it so happened, that at that moment the King of that city was passing by on his elephant. Who acts: it, King. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, 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 6, sentence 106

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Now by the ordinance of fate it so happened, that at that moment the King of that city was passing by on his elephant.

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**Who acts:** it, King · **What happens:** happen, pass, ordain · **To what, where:** that, moment, fate

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King), 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:pg68641:8:106
# text = Now by the ordinance of fate it so happened, that at that moment the King of that city was passing by on his elephant.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it | that |  |  | now; moment | by the ordinance of fate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ordinance=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past · progressive | the King of that city | that moment *not said here* |  |  |  | by King's elephant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent moment=Theme by elephant=Destination |
| 3 | **ordain** |  |  | fate |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «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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