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title: And all about it flitted fireflies, looking like swarms of bees that… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And all about it flitted fireflies, looking like swarms of bees that had returned with torches, unable to endure separation at night from the lotus flowers which they loved all day. Who acts: expanse, bees, trees. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dre
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 26

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And all about it flitted fireflies, looking like swarms of bees that had returned with torches, unable to endure separation at night from the lotus flowers which they loved all day.

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**Who acts:** expanse, bees, trees · **What happens:** flit, look, return, endure, love · **To what, where:** fireflies, separation, lotus flowers

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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 (expanse, bees, 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:pg68641:6:26
# text = And all about it flitted fireflies, looking like swarms of bees that had returned with torches, unable to endure separation at night from the lotus flowers which they loved all day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flitted	flit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fireflies	firefly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flit** | past | expanse | fireflies |  |  |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location firefly=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | expanse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like swarms of bees | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **return** | past · perfect | bees |  |  |  |  | with torches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **endure** | to-infinitive | expanse *not said here* | separation |  | the lotus flowers | night |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme separation=Circumstance |
| 5 | **love** | past | trees *= tree* | the lotus flowers |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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