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title: And suddenly she stooped, and gathered up her hair in her arm, and c… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And suddenly she stooped, and gathered up her hair in her arm, and came up to Umra-Singh, and flung it round him like a noose, and whispered in his ear, with lips that caressed it as they moved: O foolish bee[7], I am but a lotus of the night: yet why despise me, in comparison with the absent lotus 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 51

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And suddenly she stooped, and gathered up her hair in her arm, and came up to Umra-Singh, and flung it round him like a noose, and whispered in his ear, with lips that caressed it as they moved: O foolish bee\[7\], I am but a lotus of the night: yet why despise me, in comparison with the absent lotus of the day?

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**Who acts:** cloud, lips, I · **What happens:** stoop, gather up, come up, fling, whisper, caress · **To what, where:** hair, arm, Umra, ear, foolish bee, lotus

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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 (cloud, lips, I), 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:pg68641:6:51
# text = And suddenly she stooped, and gathered up her hair in her arm, and came up to Umra-Singh, and flung it round him like a noose, and whispered in his ear, with lips that caressed it as they moved: O foolish bee[7], I am but a lotus of the night: yet why despise me, in comparison with the absent lotus of the day?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Umra	Umra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Singh	Singh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	49	case	_	_
48	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
55	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	65	punct	_	_
63	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	65	advmod	_	_
65	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
66	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
72	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | cloud |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gather up** | past | cloud *not said here* | cloud's hair |  | cloud's arm |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | past | cloud *not said here* |  |  | Umra and Singh |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to umra=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fling** | past | cloud *not said here* | hair |  |  |  | round Singh; like a noose | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | Singh's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 6 | **caress** | past | lips | hair |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **move** | past | lips *= lip* | foolish bee |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme bee=Result |
| 8 | **is a** | present | I | a lotus |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **despise** | infinitive | cloud *not said here* | me |  | comparison with the absent lotus of the day |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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