--- title: For her heart was stirred within her at the sight of him, and dim su… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: For her heart was stirred within her at the sight of him, and dim suggestions of that former birth, which she had forgotten, struggled in her soul, and strove to rise up out of its depths. Who acts: former birth. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Drea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/) / 67 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 67 For her heart was stirred within her at the sight of him, and dim suggestions of that former birth, which she had forgotten, struggled in her soul, and strove to rise up out of its depths. **Who acts:** former birth · **What happens:** stir, forget, struggle, strive, rise up, sight · **To what, where:** sight, dim suggestions, soul, depths, King This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former birth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:4:67 # text = For her heart was stirred within her at the sight of him, and dim suggestions of that former birth, which she had forgotten, struggled in her soul, and strove to rise up out of its depths. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 stirred stir VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 within within ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 suggestions suggestion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 struggled struggle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 strove strive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stir** | past · passive | | | | the sight of King | | for lion's heart; within lion; dim suggestions of that former birth *conj* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: at sight=Location | | 2 | **forget** | past · perfect · passive | | dim suggestions of that former birth | | | | lion *nsubj* | tree rules | | 3 | **struggle** | participle | | | | lion's soul | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **strive** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rise up** | to-infinitive | | | | birth's depths | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out depth=Location | | 6 | **sight** | | | King | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **suggest** | | that former birth | | | | | | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/68/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/)