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title: And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garland… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garlanded with a necklace of skulls, with a half-moon in his yellow hair, he created by his supernatural power a gong, hanging from a banyan tree in the centre of the wood. Who acts: Maheshwara. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cyc
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 45

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And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garlanded with a necklace of skulls, with a half-moon in his yellow hair, he created by his supernatural power a gong, hanging from a banyan tree in the centre of the wood.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara · **What happens:** stand, garland, create, hang · **To what, where:** body, densest part, gong, banyan tree

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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 (Maheshwara), 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:pg68641:8:45
# text = And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garlanded with a necklace of skulls, with a half-moon in his yellow hair, he created by his supernatural power a gong, hanging from a banyan tree in the centre of the wood.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	densest	dense	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	garlanded	garland	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	gong	gong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	advcl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	banyan	banyan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | Maheshwara *not said here* | Maheshwara's body |  | ascetic's densest part |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location |
| 2 | **garland** | participle | Maheshwara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a necklace of skulls with a half moon in Maheshwara's yellow hair | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with necklace=Theme |
| 3 | **create** | past | Maheshwara | a gong |  |  |  | by Maheshwara's supernatural power | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gong=Result |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | Maheshwara *not said here* |  |  | a banyan tree |  | in the centre of the wood | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |

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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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