--- title: Then she bound up that wet hair into a knot, and remained all day by… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: Then she bound up that wet hair into a knot, and remained all day by the pool, not endeavouring to go further: for she said to herself: Rather let me stay here to perish of hunger, or furnish myself food to some wild beast, than continue my journey through a wood filled with illusions worse than a h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/) / 36 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 36 Then she bound up that wet hair into a knot, and remained all day by the pool, not endeavouring to go further: for she said to herself: Rather let me stay here to perish of hunger, or furnish myself food to some wild beast, than continue my journey through a wood filled with illusions worse than a hundred deaths. **Who acts:** moonstone, me, wood, my · **What happens:** bind up, remain, not endeavour, go, say, let · **To what, where:** wet hair, moonstone, me, myself, journey, hundred deaths · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (moonstone, me, wood, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:10:36 # text = Then she bound up that wet hair into a knot, and remained all day by the pool, not endeavouring to go further: for she said to herself: Rather let me stay here to perish of hunger, or furnish myself food to some wild beast, than continue my journey through a wood filled with illusions worse than a hundred deaths. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bound bind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 knot knot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 endeavouring endeavour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Rather rather X GW _ 33 cc _ _ 33 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 perish perish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 furnish furnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 44 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obj _ _ 45 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 49 det _ _ 48 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 than than SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 52 continue continue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 53 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 through through ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 58 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 acl _ _ 59 with with ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 illusions illusion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ _ 61 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 64 advmod _ _ 62 than than ADP IN _ 61 fixed _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 65 nummod _ _ 65 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bind up** | past | moonstone | wet hair | | | then | into a knot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into knot=Co-Patient | | 2 | **remain** | past | moonstone *not said here* | | | | day | by the pool | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pool=Location | | 3 | **not** **endeavour** | gerund | moonstone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | moonstone *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | moonstone | | moonstone | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stay** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | here | | | tree rules | | 8 | **perish** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | | 9 | **furnish** | infinitive | | myself | | | | to some wild beast; food *obj* | tree rules | | 10 | **continue** | infinitive | | my journey | | | | through a wood | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme through wood=Instrument | | 11 | **fill** | participle | a wood *not said here* | hundred deaths | | | | with illusions | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with illusion=Instrument | | 12 | **journey** | | my | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/37/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/10/)