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description: And he left far behind him the eyes of those hideous Rákshasas glowing in the sand as if with rage to see him escape: and after a long while, they came to the edge of the desert. Who acts: Umra, eyes. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 16

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And he left far behind him the eyes of those hideous Rákshasas glowing in the sand as if with rage to see him escape: and after a long while, they came to the edge of the desert.

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**Who acts:** Umra, eyes · **What happens:** leave, glow, see, escape, come · **To what, where:** sand, Umra, edge

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, eyes), 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:pg68641:7:16
# text = And he left far behind him the eyes of those hideous Rákshasas glowing in the sand as if with rage to see him escape: and after a long while, they came to the edge of the desert.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Rákshasas	Rákshasas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Umra |  |  |  |  | behind help; far *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund | the eyes of that hideous Rákshasas |  |  | the sand |  | as rage | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sand=Location |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the eyes of that hideous Rákshasas *not said here* | Umra |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** | infinitive | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the edge of the desert | while |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial\_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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