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title: And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched sou… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched soul with the nectar of her kindly glance, as a hermit's daughter refreshes with water the plants of the hermitage committed to her charge. Who acts: Shrí, daughter, plants, sight. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birt
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 17

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And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched soul with the nectar of her kindly glance, as a hermit's daughter refreshes with water the plants of the hermitage committed to her charge.

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**Who acts:** Shrí, daughter, plants, sight · **What happens:** stand, revive, parch, glance, refresh, commit · **To what, where:** dreams, parched soul, water, charge

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shrí, daughter, plants, sight), 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:pg68641:8:17
# text = And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched soul with the nectar of her kindly glance, as a hermit's daughter refreshes with water the plants of the hermitage committed to her charge.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	parched	parch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	glance	glance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	refreshes	refresh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Shrí |  |  | sight's dreams |  | beside sight | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dream=Location |
| 2 | **revive** | past | Shrí *not said here* | sight's parched soul |  |  |  | with the nectar of Shrí | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soul=Patient with nectar=Instrument |
| 3 | **parch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **glance** | present | Shrí *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **refresh** | present | a hermit's daughter |  |  |  |  | with water | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **commit** | past | the plants of the hermitage | water *not said here* |  | Shrí's charge |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to charge=Destination |
| 7 | **dream** |  | sight |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **charge** |  | Shrí |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act 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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