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title: And all night long he slept, and all day; and when the moon had rise… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And all night long he slept, and all day; and when the moon had risen again, full and round, as if to see whether he was still there, he awoke. Who acts: Singh. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 33

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And all night long he slept, and all day; and when the moon had risen again, full and round, as if to see whether he was still there, he awoke.

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**Who acts:** Singh · **What happens:** sleep, rise, see, be, awake · **To what, where:** moon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Singh), 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:pg68641:7:33
# text = And all night long he slept, and all day; and when the moon had risen again, full and round, as if to see whether he was still there, he awoke.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | Singh |  |  |  | day; night | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the moon |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Singh |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **awake** | past | Singh |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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