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title: And he stood in the pool like a pillar of stone, with the water stre… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he stood in the pool like a pillar of stone, with the water streaming from his body, and doubt bewildering his soul. Who acts: sun, water. 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 claus
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 70

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And he stood in the pool like a pillar of stone, with the water streaming from his body, and doubt bewildering his soul.

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**Who acts:** sun, water · **What happens:** stand, stream, bewilder · **To what, where:** pool, body, soul

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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 (sun, water), 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:pg68641:7:70
# text = And he stood in the pool like a pillar of stone, with the water streaming from his body, and doubt bewildering his soul.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
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	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bewildering	bewilder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | sun |  |  | the pool like a pillar of stone |  | with the water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location |
| 2 | **stream** | gerund | the water *not said here* |  |  | sun's body |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from body=Source |
| 3 | **bewilder** | gerund | sun *not said here* | sun's soul |  |  |  | doubt *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |

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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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