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title: It is hot and dusty, and I am cool and fragrant as the nectar of tha… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: It is hot and dusty, and I am cool and fragrant as the nectar of that moon in whose light I blow. Who acts: hair, I, moon. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 52

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It is hot and dusty, and I am cool and fragrant as the nectar of that moon in whose light I blow.

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**Who acts:** hair, I, moon · **What happens:** be, blow, light · **To what, where:** light

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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 (hair, I, moon), 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:pg68641:6:52
# text = It is hot and dusty, and I am cool and fragrant as the nectar of that moon in whose light I blow.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | hair |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as the nectar of that moon in that moon in light's light; cool *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **blow** | present | I | that moon in that moon in light's light's light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 6 | **light** |  | that moon in that moon in light's light |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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