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title: And he reeled under the blow of her glances, which struck him mercil… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he reeled under the blow of her glances, which struck him mercilessly like a club, and time and space fled from his soul, which was filled with colour, and tears, and laughter and pain, and he gasped for breath. Who acts: Umra, glances, time, lion. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 71

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And he reeled under the blow of her glances, which struck him mercilessly like a club, and time and space fled from his soul, which was filled with colour, and tears, and laughter and pain, and he gasped for breath.

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**Who acts:** Umra, glances, time, lion · **What happens:** reel, strike, flee, fill, gasp, blow · **To what, where:** blow, Umra, tears, soul

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, glances, time, lion), 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:pg68641:4:71
# text = And he reeled under the blow of her glances, which struck him mercilessly like a club, and time and space fled from his soul, which was filled with colour, and tears, and laughter and pain, and he gasped for breath.
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	reeled	reel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	gasped	gasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reel** | past | Umra |  |  | the blow of lion's glances |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | past | lion's glances | Umra |  |  |  | like a club; mercilessly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 3 | **flee** | past | time and space | tears |  | Umra's soul |  | laughter and pain *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from soul=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | Umra's soul |  |  |  | with colour | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with colour=Instrument |
| 5 | **gasp** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | for breath | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient |
| 6 | **blow** |  | lion's glances |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **glance** |  | lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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