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title: Like a Digit of the Moon In the Shadow of the Earth Spirit undergoet… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a Digit of the Moon In the Shadow of the Earth Spirit undergoeth Swoon In the Vestibule of Birth; Dreameth transitory trouble, Weareth Hues of Heaven, hurled Hither, thither, as a Bubble On the Ocean of the World. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 3

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Like a Digit of the Moon In the Shadow of the Earth Spirit undergoeth Swoon In the Vestibule of Birth; Dreameth transitory trouble, Weareth Hues of Heaven, hurled Hither, thither, as a Bubble On the Ocean of the World.

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**What happens:** undergo, dream, wear, hurl · **To what, where:** Swoon, Shadow, transitory trouble, Hues

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg68641:1:3
# text = Like a Digit of the Moon In the Shadow of the Earth Spirit undergoeth Swoon In the Vestibule of Birth; Dreameth transitory trouble, Weareth Hues of Heaven, hurled Hither, thither, as a Bubble On the Ocean of the World.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Digit	Digit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	undergoeth	undergo	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Swoon	Swoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Vestibule	vestibule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Birth	Birth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Dreameth	dream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	transitory	transitory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Weareth	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	Hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Bubble	Bubble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
39	On	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undergo** | present |  | Swoon |  | the Shadow of the Earth Spirit |  | like a Digit of the Moon; in the Vestibule of Birth | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** | present |  | transitory trouble |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic |
| 3 | **wear** | present |  | Hues of Heaven |  |  |  | a Bubble on the Ocean of the World *parataxis*; thither *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hue=Source |
| 4 | **hurl** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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