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title: Then on a sudden he entered a door, and found himself in a vast hall… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then on a sudden he entered a door, and found himself in a vast hall, whose walls were pierced with tall windows, through which the moonlight fell, cold as camphor, on moon-stones that hung in clusters from the roof. Who acts: moon, moonlight, moon stones. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cy
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 44

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Then on a sudden he entered a door, and found himself in a vast hall, whose walls were pierced with tall windows, through which the moonlight fell, cold as camphor, on moon-stones that hung in clusters from the roof.

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**Who acts:** moon, moonlight, moon stones · **What happens:** enter, find, pierce, fall, hang · **To what, where:** door, sudden, moon, vast hall, walls, moon stones

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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, moonlight, moon stones), 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:pg68641:7:44
# text = Then on a sudden he entered a door, and found himself in a vast hall, whose walls were pierced with tall windows, through which the moonlight fell, cold as camphor, on moon-stones that hung in clusters from the roof.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | moon | a door |  | a sudden | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past | moon *not said here* | moon |  | a vast hall |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **pierce** | past · passive |  | walls |  |  |  | with tall windows | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with window=Instrument |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the moonlight |  |  | moon stones |  | as camphor; which *obl* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location |
| 5 | **hang** | past | moon stones |  |  | clusters |  | from the roof | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=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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