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title: So he stood, like a picture on a wall, gazing in silence at the face… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stood, like a picture on a wall, gazing in silence at the face of Shrí, while the night wore away, and the moon travelled on, and the nectar from the moonstones fell slowly, drop by drop, upon the ground, and the shadows moved round upon the floor. Who acts: Indirálayá, night, moon, nectar. A 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 54

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So he stood, like a picture on a wall, gazing in silence at the face of Shrí, while the night wore away, and the moon travelled on, and the nectar from the moonstones fell slowly, drop by drop, upon the ground, and the shadows moved round upon the floor.

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**Who acts:** Indirálayá, night, moon, nectar, shadows · **What happens:** stand, gaze, wear away, travel, fall, drop · **To what, where:** ground, floor

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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 (Indirálayá, night, moon, nectar), 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:pg68641:7:54
# text = So he stood, like a picture on a wall, gazing in silence at the face of Shrí, while the night wore away, and the moon travelled on, and the nectar from the moonstones fell slowly, drop by drop, upon the ground, and the shadows moved round upon the floor.
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	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	moonstones	moonstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
54	round	round	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Indirálayá |  |  |  |  | like a picture on a wall | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | Indirálayá *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the face of Shrí; in silence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme |
| 3 | **wear away** | past | the night |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **travel** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | the nectar from the moonstones |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **drop** | infinitive | the nectar from the moonstones *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | by drop | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent by drop=Destination upon ground=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **move** | past | the shadows |  |  | the floor |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon floor=Trajectory |

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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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