--- title: But in the meanwhile Shrí[1], when she abandoned the body in Indirál… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: But in the meanwhile Shrí[1], when she abandoned the body in Indirálayá, flew in the twinkling of an eye to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. And there she entered that other body, lying in a couch in the Palace hall. Who acts: Shrí. 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And there she entered that other body, lying in a couch in the Palace hall. **Who acts:** Shrí · **What happens:** abandon, fly, enter, lie · **To what, where:** body, Indirálayá, twinkling, couch, Shrí 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 (Shrí), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:8:64 # text = But in the meanwhile Shrí[1], when she abandoned the body in Indirálayá, flew in the twinkling of an eye to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. And there she entered that other body, lying in a couch in the Palace hall. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 meanwhile meanwhile PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Shrí Shrí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 abandoned abandon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Indirálayá Indirálayá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Lotus Lotus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 couch couch NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **abandon** | past | Shrí | the body | | Indirálayá | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme body=Source | | 2 | **fly** | past | | | | the twinkling of a eye | | to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twinkling=Location | | 3 | **enter** | past | Shrí | | | there | | other body *advcl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | Shrí *not said here* | | | a couch in the Palace hall | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in couch=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/65/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/)