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description: And as he gazed, they grew larger and rapidly approached him, sending back to him, like mirrors, the red rays of the rising sun. And they drew nearer, and he saw that they were a pair of silver Swans, carrying in their bills the dead body of a third, of gold. Who acts: bird, specks. A sentence of «T
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 5

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And as he gazed, they grew larger and rapidly approached him, sending back to him, like mirrors, the red rays of the rising sun. And they drew nearer, and he saw that they were a pair of silver Swans, carrying in their bills the dead body of a third, of gold.

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**Who acts:** bird, specks · **What happens:** gaze, grow, approach, send back, rise, draw · **To what, where:** bird, pair, dead body, bills, rising sun.

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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 (bird, specks), 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:pg68641:7:5
# text = And as he gazed, they grew larger and rapidly approached him, sending back to him, like mirrors, the red rays of the rising sun. And they drew nearer, and he saw that they were a pair of silver Swans, carrying in their bills the dead body of a third, of gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	amod	_	_
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	Swans	Swan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | specks *= speck* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **approach** | past | specks *= speck* *not said here* | bird |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **send back** | gerund | specks *= speck* *not said here* |  | bird |  |  | like mirrors and the red rays of the rising sun. | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **draw** | past | specks *= speck* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **see** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is a** | past | specks *= speck* | a pair |  |  |  | of silver; Swans *nmod* | tree rules |
| 9 | **carry** | gerund | specks *= speck* *not said here* | the dead body of a third and gold |  | specks's bills |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Value in bill=Location |
| 10 | **ray** |  |  | the rising sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **bill** |  | specks *= speck* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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