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title: _O glorious and infinite Spirit of Peace, Lord of Ascetics, who whir… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: _O glorious and infinite Spirit of Peace, Lord of Ascetics, who whirling round in thy wild dance dost lend as it were its colour to the sky, in whose mirror are seen reflected the blueness of thy throat and the silver digit of the moon in the matted tufts of thy tawny hair: thee we adore. Who acts: 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 3

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\_O glorious and infinite Spirit of Peace, Lord of Ascetics, who whirling round in thy wild dance dost lend as it were its colour to the sky, in whose mirror are seen reflected the blueness of thy throat and the silver digit of the moon in the matted tufts of thy tawny hair: thee we adore.

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**Who acts:** whirling, glorious Spirit, dance, thee, thy · **What happens:** whirl, do, lend, be, see, reflect · **To what, where:** wild dance, sky, mirror, blueness

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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 (whirling, glorious Spirit, dance, thee), 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:pg68641:2:3
# text = _O glorious and infinite Spirit of Peace, Lord of Ascetics, who whirling round in thy wild dance dost lend as it were its colour to the sky, in whose mirror are seen reflected the blueness of thy throat and the silver digit of the moon in the matted tufts of thy tawny hair: thee we adore.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ascetics	Ascetic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
22	lend	lend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
37	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	blueness	blueness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	matted	mat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
53	tufts	tuft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
59	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	61	nsubj	_	_
60	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	adore	adore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | gerund |  |  |  | thy wild dance |  | who *nsubj*; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in dance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | present | whirling |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lend** | present | glorious Spirit of Peace and Lord of Ascetics |  | the sky |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sky=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | dance |  |  |  |  | as dance's colour | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present · passive |  |  |  | mirror |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **reflect** | participle |  | the blueness of thy throat and the silver digit of the moon in the matted tufts of thy tawny hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **adore** | present | thee |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **dance** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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