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title: And the nurses and waiting women were astonished, for wonderful to s… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And the nurses and waiting women were astonished, for wonderful to say! the lids of the child's eyes were fringed with long black lashes, looking like rain-clouds hanging low to hide the rising moon. Who acts: nurses, rain clouds. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 5

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And the nurses and waiting women were astonished, for wonderful to say! the lids of the child's eyes were fringed with long black lashes, looking like rain-clouds hanging low to hide the rising moon.

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**Who acts:** nurses, rain clouds · **What happens:** wait, be, say, fringe, look, hang · **To what, where:** women, lids, rising moon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nurses, rain clouds), 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:pg68641:3:5
# text = And the nurses and waiting women were astonished, for wonderful to say! the lids of the child's eyes were fringed with long black lashes, looking like rain-clouds hanging low to hide the rising moon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lashes	lash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | the nurses *not said here* | women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the nurses |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the nurses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fringe** | past · passive |  | the lids |  |  |  | of the child's eyes; with long black lashes | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like rain clouds | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **hang** | gerund | rain clouds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hide** | to-infinitive | rain clouds *not said here* | the rising moon |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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