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title: [21] _Suskamásheshá_: an incomparable expression, meaning, as applie… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: [21] _Suskamásheshá_: an incomparable expression, meaning, as applied to the thin streak of the new moon at dusk, that everything of it was gone, except its beauty: _venustas, et prœterea nihil_! Who acts: incomparable expression, moon. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unk
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 129

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\[21\] \_Suskamásheshá\_: an incomparable expression, meaning, as applied to the thin streak of the new moon at dusk, that everything of it was gone, except its beauty: \_venustas, et prœterea nihil\_!

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**Who acts:** incomparable expression, moon · **What happens:** mean, apply, be · **To what, where:** 21

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incomparable expression, moon), 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:pg68641:2:129
# text = [21] _Suskamásheshá_: an incomparable expression, meaning, as applied to the thin streak of the new moon at dusk, that everything of it was gone, except its beauty: _venustas, et prœterea nihil_!
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Suskamásheshá	Suskamásheshá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	incomparable	incomparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	except	except	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	venustas	venusta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	prœterea	prœterea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	nihil	nihil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | a incomparable expression  everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **apply** *not said to happen* | participle | a incomparable expression  everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the thin streak of the new moon at dusk | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | moon |  |  |  |  | except moon's beauty; gone *property* | 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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