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title: And then the waning moon rose, and poured through the interstices of… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the waning moon rose, and poured through the interstices of the leaves beams faint and pallid, as if sharing her own terror. Who acts: waning moon, interstices. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and th
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 2

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And then the waning moon rose, and poured through the interstices of the leaves beams faint and pallid, as if sharing her own terror.

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**Who acts:** waning moon, interstices · **What happens:** wane, rise, pour, beam, share · **To what, where:** interstices, own terror

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waning moon, interstices), 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:pg68641:10:2
# text = And then the waning moon rose, and poured through the interstices of the leaves beams faint and pallid, as if sharing her own terror.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	waning	wane	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	interstices	interstice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	beams	beam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pallid	pallid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wane** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the waning moon |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pour** | participle |  |  |  | the interstices |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through interstice=Location |
| 4 | **beam** | present | the interstices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the leaves; faint *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **share** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund |  | moon's own terror |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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