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title: Distance lends enchantment, and time effaces detail, and endows ster… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Distance lends enchantment, and time effaces detail, and endows stern realities with dreamy beauty; and thus a rugged stony past fades gradually into a picture, blue, soft, and unutterably beautiful, like some low barren island, seen far away in the haze, over a hot and glittering sea. Who acts: Dis
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 81

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Distance lends enchantment, and time effaces detail, and endows stern realities with dreamy beauty; and thus a rugged stony past fades gradually into a picture, blue, soft, and unutterably beautiful, like some low barren island, seen far away in the haze, over a hot and glittering sea.

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**Who acts:** Distance, time, rugged stony past · **What happens:** lend, efface, endow, fade, see, glitter · **To what, where:** enchantment, detail, stern realities, picture, low barren island, hot sea

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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 (Distance, time, rugged stony past), 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:pg68641:1:81
# text = Distance lends enchantment, and time effaces detail, and endows stern realities with dreamy beauty; and thus a rugged stony past fades gradually into a picture, blue, soft, and unutterably beautiful, like some low barren island, seen far away in the haze, over a hot and glittering sea.
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lends	lend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	effaces	efface	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	endows	endow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	realities	reality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	unutterably	unutterably	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	nsubj	_	_
40	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
45	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	over	over	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
56	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | present | Distance | enchantment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme |
| 2 | **efface** | present | time | detail |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |
| 3 | **endow** | present | time *not said here* | stern realities |  |  |  | with dreamy beauty | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent reality=Destination with beauty=Theme |
| 4 | **fade** | present | a rugged stony past |  |  | a picture |  | gradually, thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | participle |  | low barren island *not said here* |  | a hot sea |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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