--- title: And she leaned against a tree and stood waiting, with one hand on th… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And she leaned against a tree and stood waiting, with one hand on the trunk of the tree and the other on her hip, and a heaving breast: and she looked like a feminine incarnation of the essence of the agitation of the ocean, stirred by the sight of the moon. Who acts: cow. 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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 (cow), 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:pg68641:6:33 # text = And she leaned against a tree and stood waiting, with one hand on the trunk of the tree and the other on her hip, and a heaving breast: and she looked like a feminine incarnation of the essence of the agitation of the ocean, stirred by the sight of the moon. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 leaned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hip hip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 heaving heaving NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 incarnation incarnation NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 essence essence NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 agitation agitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 stirred stir VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 50 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | cow | a heaving breast | | | | against a tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | past | cow *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | cow *not said here* | | | | | with one hand on the trunk of the tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look** | past | cow | | | | | like a feminine incarnation of the essence of the agitation of the ocean | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **stir** | participle | cow *not said here* | | | | | by the sight of the moon | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sight=Location | | 6 | **sight** | | | the moon | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/34/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/)