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title: So he went in, and passed along, wondering, with echoing steps, from… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went in, and passed along, wondering, with echoing steps, from room to room. Who acts: moon. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 43

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So he went in, and passed along, wondering, with echoing steps, from room to room.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** go in, pass along, wonder, echo · **To what, where:** echoing steps

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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 (moon), 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:pg68641:7:43
# text = So he went in, and passed along, wondering, with echoing steps, from room to room.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	along	along	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	echoing	echo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass along** | participle | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | moon *not said here* | echoing steps and room to room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **echo** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «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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