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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 58

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And as he gazed into vacancy, he saw before him the blue ocean of the eyes of Shrí; and his memory echoed with faint murmurs of the sound of drums and the voices of criers; and they filled his soul with whispers coming from an infinite distance across the years of separation, until at length the sun rose.

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**Who acts:** moon, memory, criers, whispers, sun · **What happens:** gaze, see, echo, fill, come, rise · **To what, where:** blue ocean, soul, length, sound

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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, memory, criers, whispers), 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:pg68641:7:58
# text = And as he gazed into vacancy, he saw before him the blue ocean of the eyes of Shrí; and his memory echoed with faint murmurs of the sound of drums and the voices of criers; and they filled his soul with whispers coming from an infinite distance across the years of separation, until at length the sun rose.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	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	9	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vacancy	vacancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	across	across	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | moon |  |  |  |  | into vacancy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vacancy=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | moon | the blue ocean of the eyes of Shrí |  |  | before Indirálayá |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ocean=Stimulus |
| 3 | **echo** | past | moon's memory |  |  |  |  | with faint murmurs of the sound of drums and the voices of criers | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with murmur=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | past | criers *= crier* | moon's soul |  |  |  | with whispers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soul=Patient with whisper=Instrument |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | whispers *not said here* |  |  |  | year | from a infinite distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  | length |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 7 | **murmur** |  |  | the sound of drums and the voices of criers |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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