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title: And like the horns of the waxing moon, her limbs rounded and swelled… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And like the horns of the waxing moon, her limbs rounded and swelled into the very perfect orb of supreme loveliness, and she became as it were the very salt of the sea of beauty[5], inspiring in all who drank of it insatiable thirst, and an intolerable craving for the water of the blue lakes of her
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 21

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And like the horns of the waxing moon, her limbs rounded and swelled into the very perfect orb of supreme loveliness, and she became as it were the very salt of the sea of beauty\[5\], inspiring in all who drank of it insatiable thirst, and an intolerable craving for the water of the blue lakes of her eyes.

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**Who acts:** limbs, Shrí, loveliness · **What happens:** wax, round, swell, become, be, drink · **To what, where:** perfect orb, intolerable craving, salt, all, insatiable thirst

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limbs, Shrí, loveliness), 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:pg68641:3:21
# text = And like the horns of the waxing moon, her limbs rounded and swelled into the very perfect orb of supreme loveliness, and she became as it were the very salt of the sea of beauty[5], inspiring in all who drank of it insatiable thirst, and an intolerable craving for the water of the blue lakes of her eyes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	waxing	wax	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rounded	round	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	orb	orb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	inspiring	inspiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	obl	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | past | Shrí's limbs |  |  |  |  | like the horns of the waxing moon | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **swell** | past | Shrí's limbs *not said here* |  |  | the perfect orb of supreme loveliness |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **become** | past | Shrí | a intolerable craving for the water of the blue lakes of Shrí's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | loveliness | the salt |  |  |  | of the sea of beauty | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | loveliness *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **drink** | past |  | insatiable thirst |  |  |  | of loveliness; who *nsubj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |

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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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