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description: And as he went, gradually the trees grew rarer, and at length he looked before him, and saw in a clear space a dark blue forest pool, studded with moon-lotuses, as if created to mock the expanse of heaven bespangled with its stars, a mirror formed by Wedasa[1] to reproduce another world below. Who a
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 25

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And as he went, gradually the trees grew rarer, and at length he looked before him, and saw in a clear space a dark blue forest pool, studded with moon-lotuses, as if created to mock the expanse of heaven bespangled with its stars, a mirror formed by Wedasa\[1\] to reproduce another world below.

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**Who acts:** word, trees · **What happens:** go, grow, look, see, stud, create · **To what, where:** clear space, dark blue forest pool, expanse, mirror, world

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, trees), 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:pg68641:6:25
# text = And as he went, gradually the trees grew rarer, and at length he looked before him, and saw in a clear space a dark blue forest pool, studded with moon-lotuses, as if created to mock the expanse of heaven bespangled with its stars, a mirror formed by Wedasa[1] to reproduce another world below.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	rarer	rare	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	lotuses	lotus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	mock	mock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	bespangled	bespangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
54	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
55	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Wedasa	Wedasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	56	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
62	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	63	det	_	_
63	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	below	below	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | word |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | gradually, rare *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | word |  |  |  | before light | at length | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at length=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | word *not said here* |  |  | a clear space |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stud** | participle |  | a dark blue forest pool and a mirror *not said here* |  |  |  | with moon lotuses | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lotus=Theme |
| 6 | **create** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mock** | to-infinitive |  | the expanse of heaven |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expanse=Theme |
| 8 | **bespangle** | participle |  | the expanse of heaven *not said here* |  |  |  | with heaven's stars | tree rules |
| 9 | **form** | participle |  | a mirror *not said here* |  |  |  | Wedasa *obl:agent* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **reproduce** | to-infinitive |  | another world |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent world=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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