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title: And he looked, and saw Anushayiní standing before him like the new m… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he looked, and saw Anushayiní standing before him like the new moon at the close of day, a pure form of exquisite beauty[21], a crystal without a flaw, tinged with the colour of heaven. Who acts: meditation, Anushayiní. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 78

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And he looked, and saw Anushayiní standing before him like the new moon at the close of day, a pure form of exquisite beauty\[21\], a crystal without a flaw, tinged with the colour of heaven.

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**Who acts:** meditation, Anushayiní · **What happens:** look, see, stand, ting, form · **To what, where:** Anushayiní, close, flaw, exquisite beauty

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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 (meditation, Anushayiní), 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:pg68641:2:78
# text = And he looked, and saw Anushayiní standing before him like the new moon at the close of day, a pure form of exquisite beauty[21], a crystal without a flaw, tinged with the colour of heaven.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Anushayiní	Anushayiní	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
33	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	flaw	flaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	tinged	ting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | meditation |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | meditation *not said here* | Anushayiní |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | Anushayiní *not said here* |  |  | the close of day and a crystal | before Anushayiní | like the new moon; without a flaw | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 4 | **ting** | participle |  | a flaw *not said here* |  |  |  | with the colour of heaven | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with colour=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | exquisite beauty |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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