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description: And he struck with his trident a blow on that mind-born gong that resounded through the forest like thunder. Who acts: Maheshwara, born gong. 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 46

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And he struck with his trident a blow on that mind-born gong that resounded through the forest like thunder.

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**Who acts:** Maheshwara, born gong · **What happens:** strike, bear, resound · **To what, where:** blow, forest

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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, born gong), 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:pg68641:8:46
# text = And he struck with his trident a blow on that mind-born gong that resounded through the forest like thunder.
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	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	trident	trident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
11	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	gong	gong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	resounded	resound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Maheshwara | a blow |  |  |  | with Maheshwara's trident; on that born gong | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on gong=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | mind *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **resound** | past | that born gong |  |  | the forest like thunder |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=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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