--- title: Yet how shall I escape the vigilance of yonder dreadful Dwellers in… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: Yet how shall I escape the vigilance of yonder dreadful Dwellers in the Sand, wading with difficulty in its substance that will sink under my feet like the waves of the sea, but over which they scud like the shadow of a cloud? Who acts: I, substance, feet. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, substance, feet), 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:pg68641:6:106 # text = Yet how shall I escape the vigilance of yonder dreadful Dwellers in the Sand, wading with difficulty in its substance that will sink under my feet like the waves of the sea, but over which they scud like the shadow of a cloud? 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 vigilance vigilance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Dwellers dweller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Sand Sand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wading wade VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 under under ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 scud scud VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | shall | I | the vigilance of dreadful Dwellers in the Sand | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigilance=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **wade** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | difficulty's substance | | with difficulty | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in substance=Trajectory | | 3 | **sink** | future | difficulty's substance | | | my feet like the waves of the sea | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **scud** | present | feet *= foot* | | | | | like the shadow of a cloud; which *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory | | 5 | **wave** | | | the sea | | | | | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **shadow** | | | a cloud | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/104/) - next →: [A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/7/1/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/)