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title: And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast de… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast desert of burning sand, that stretched away to the very limit of the range of sight, and on its edges rested the quarters of heaven. Who acts: vision, that. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 98

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And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast desert of burning sand, that stretched away to the very limit of the range of sight, and on its edges rested the quarters of heaven.

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**Who acts:** vision, that · **What happens:** be, burn, stretch away, rest · **To what, where:** vast desert, limit, quarters, edges

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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 (vision, that), 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:pg68641:6:99
# text = And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast desert of burning sand, that stretched away to the very limit of the range of sight, and on its edges rested the quarters of heaven.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
40	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | vision | a vast desert |  |  |  | of burning sand | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch away** | past | that |  |  | the limit of the range of sight |  | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to limit=Location |
| 4 | **rest** | past | that *not said here* | the quarters of heaven |  | sight's edges |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme on edge=Location |

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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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