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title: For it passes on from body to body, and draws fresh fire from each n… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For it passes on from body to body, and draws fresh fire from each new birth. Who acts: omnipotent. 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 74

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For it passes on from body to body, and draws fresh fire from each new birth.

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**Who acts:** omnipotent · **What happens:** pass on, draw · **To what, where:** body, fresh fire, new birth

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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 (omnipotent), 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:pg68641:8:74
# text = For it passes on from body to body, and draws fresh fire from each new birth.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | present | omnipotent |  |  | body |  | to body | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from body=Initial\_Location to body=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | present | omnipotent *not said here* | fresh fire |  | each new birth |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from birth=Initial\_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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