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title: But when he got to the shore, and saw the wonderful beauty of her da… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he got to the shore, and saw the wonderful beauty of her dark blue eyes and snow white raiment, he was struck with wonder, and became afraid. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, with its dependency tree and th
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 83

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But when he got to the shore, and saw the wonderful beauty of her dark blue eyes and snow white raiment, he was struck with wonder, and became afraid.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** get, see, strike, become · **To what, where:** wonderful beauty, captain

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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 (captain), 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:pg68641:8:83
# text = But when he got to the shore, and saw the wonderful beauty of her dark blue eyes and snow white raiment, he was struck with wonder, and became afraid.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | captain |  |  |  |  | to the shore *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | the wonderful beauty of wind's dark blue eyes and snow white raiment |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 3 | **strike** | past · passive |  | captain |  |  |  | with wonder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
| 4 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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