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title: And she wavered and swayed on her feet, like a young shoot fanned by… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she wavered and swayed on her feet, like a young shoot fanned by opposing breezes: while large tears fell from her eyes, like drops of camphor from a moonstone[1]. Who acts: moon, large tears. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 7

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And she wavered and swayed on her feet, like a young shoot fanned by opposing breezes: while large tears fell from her eyes, like drops of camphor from a moonstone\[1\].

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**Who acts:** moon, large tears · **What happens:** waver, sway, fan, oppose, fall · **To what, where:** feet, young shoot, breezes, eyes

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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 (moon, large tears), 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:pg68641:10:7
# text = And she wavered and swayed on her feet, like a young shoot fanned by opposing breezes: while large tears fell from her eyes, like drops of camphor from a moonstone[1].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wavered	waver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	swayed	sway	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	fanned	fan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	moonstone	moonstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waver** | past | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sway** | past | moon *not said here* |  |  | moon's feet |  | like a young shoot | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location |
| 3 | **fan** | participle |  | a young shoot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **oppose** | gerund |  | breezes |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | past | large tears |  |  | moon's eyes |  | like drops of camphor from a moonstone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |

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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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