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title: And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was furrowed and pitted with holes and chasms; and its surface rose and fell, as he watched it, like a woman's breast, and it looked as if it were alive, though it was in truth the home of death. Who acts: quarter, surface, it, sun. A s
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 99

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And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was furrowed and pitted with holes and chasms; and its surface rose and fell, as he watched it, like a woman's breast, and it looked as if it were alive, though it was in truth the home of death.

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**Who acts:** quarter, surface, it, sun · **What happens:** glow, furrow, pit, rise, fall, watch · **To what, where:** fire, quarter, truth, rays

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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 (quarter, surface, it, sun), 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:pg68641:6:100
# text = And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was furrowed and pitted with holes and chasms; and its surface rose and fell, as he watched it, like a woman's breast, and it looked as if it were alive, though it was in truth the home of death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	furrowed	furrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pitted	pit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	chasms	chasm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	parataxis	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | quarter |  |  | the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fire=Location |
| 2 | **furrow** | past · passive | quarter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **pit** | participle | quarter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with holes and chasms | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise** | past | quarter's surface |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | quarter's surface *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **watch** | past | surface | quarter |  |  |  | like a woman's breast | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | past | quarter |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | quarter |  |  | truth |  | the home of death *nmod* | tree rules |
| 10 | **fire** |  |  | the sun's rays like a furnace |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | like a furnace | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |

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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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