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title: And then at length the sun went to his rest in the western quarter,… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then at length the sun went to his rest in the western quarter, and the moon rose, and was reflected in the bright eyes of those sand-haunting Rákshasas, which glittered in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus. Who acts: sun, moon, haunting Rákshasas. 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 2

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And then at length the sun went to his rest in the western quarter, and the moon rose, and was reflected in the bright eyes of those sand-haunting Rákshasas, which glittered in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus.

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**Who acts:** sun, moon, haunting Rákshasas · **What happens:** go, rise, reflect, haunt, glitter · **To what, where:** length, bright eyes

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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 (sun, moon, haunting Rákshasas), 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:pg68641:7:2
# text = And then at length the sun went to his rest in the western quarter, and the moon rose, and was reflected in the bright eyes of those sand-haunting Rákshasas, which glittered in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
30	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	haunting	haunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	Rákshasas	Rákshasas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the sun |  |  | length | then | to sun's rest; in the western quarter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reflect** | past · passive | the moon *not said here* |  |  | the bright eyes of that haunting Rákshasas |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **haunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sand *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **glitter** | past | that haunting Rákshasas |  |  |  |  | in the distance on the dark desert like drops of water on the leaf of a black lotus | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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