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title: _Lux in tenebris_: a dazzling light, in the most profound darkness:… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: _Lux in tenebris_: a dazzling light, in the most profound darkness: the night of the sun: a heavenly body, doomed to put on mortality and suffer for a period in this lower world of darkness, birth and death: in some such ways as these we may express its central idea. Who acts: heavenly body. A sente
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 34

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\_Lux in tenebris\_: a dazzling light, in the most profound darkness: the night of the sun: a heavenly body, doomed to put on mortality and suffer for a period in this lower world of darkness, birth and death: in some such ways as these we may express its central idea.

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**Who acts:** heavenly body · **What happens:** doom, put, suffer, express · **To what, where:** mortality, lower world, central idea, Lux

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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: who acts (heavenly body), 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:pg68641:1:34
# text = _Lux in tenebris_: a dazzling light, in the most profound darkness: the night of the sun: a heavenly body, doomed to put on mortality and suffer for a period in this lower world of darkness, birth and death: in some such ways as these we may express its central idea.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lux	Lux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tenebris	tenebris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
50	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	51	nmod	_	_
54	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | participle | a heavenly body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | a heavenly body *not said here* |  |  | mortality |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on mortality=Destination |
| 3 | **suffer** | infinitive | a heavenly body *not said here* |  |  | this lower world of darkness and birth and death |  | for a period | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **express** | may | a heavenly body | body's central idea |  |  | night | some such ways as these *nsubj*; we *nsubj* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |

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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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