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title: [4] A play on her name, as a digit of the moon: Soma is the moon, an… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [4] A play on her name, as a digit of the moon: Soma is the moon, and the famous intoxicant of the early Hindoos. Who acts: Soma, Fortuna. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, 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 7, sentence 35

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\[4\] A play on her name, as a digit of the moon: Soma is the moon, and the famous intoxicant of the early Hindoos.

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**Who acts:** Soma, Fortuna · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** moon, 4

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soma, Fortuna), 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:pg68641:9:35
# text = [4] A play on her name, as a digit of the moon: Soma is the moon, and the famous intoxicant of the early Hindoos.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Soma	Soma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	intoxicant	intoxicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Soma | the moon |  |  |  | the famous intoxicant of the early Hindoos *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Fortuna |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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