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title: And as she stood there, trembling in the swing of uncertainty, Kamal… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she stood there, trembling in the swing of uncertainty, Kamalamitra watched her with ecstasy, and laughed to himself; and said: Certainly that old _muni_ is no longer alive, for otherwise she would have reached his soul through the door of his eyes, were it down in the lower world. Who acts: 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 76

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And as she stood there, trembling in the swing of uncertainty, Kamalamitra watched her with ecstasy, and laughed to himself; and said: Certainly that old \_muni\_ is no longer alive, for otherwise she would have reached his soul through the door of his eyes, were it down in the lower world.

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**Who acts:** thought, Kamalamitra, old, uncertainty · **What happens:** stand, tremble, watch down, laugh, say, be · **To what, where:** swing, thought, lower world, Anushayiní, soul, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thought, Kamalamitra, old, uncertainty), 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:pg68641:2:76
# text = And as she stood there, trembling in the swing of uncertainty, Kamalamitra watched her with ecstasy, and laughed to himself; and said: Certainly that old _muni_ is no longer alive, for otherwise she would have reached his soul through the door of his eyes, were it down in the lower world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	Kamalamitra	Kamalamitra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nsubj	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	muni	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	no	no	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
44	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
56	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	60	amod	_	_
60	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | thought |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | thought *not said here* |  |  | the swing of uncertainty |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swing=Location |
| 3 | **watch down** | past | Kamalamitra | thought |  | the lower world |  | with ecstasy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | Kamalamitra *not said here* |  | Anushayiní |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kamalamitra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | old and muni \_ |  |  |  |  | alive, long *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **reach** | would · perfect | thought | Anushayiní's soul |  | the door of Anushayiní's eyes |  | otherwise *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **swing** |  | uncertainty |  |  |  |  |  | nom swing «state intransitive»: of=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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