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title: And he looked at her as she stood smiling at him, bowing like a flow… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he looked at her as she stood smiling at him, bowing like a flower from the weight of her bosom and the slenderness of her waist, and laughed in his intoxication, befooled by the roundness of her limbs and the blueness of her eyes, and forgetting that the Creator made woman to be an instrument o
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 15

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And he looked at her as she stood smiling at him, bowing like a flower from the weight of her bosom and the slenderness of her waist, and laughed in his intoxication, befooled by the roundness of her limbs and the blueness of her eyes, and forgetting that the Creator made woman to be an instrument of delusion, with an exterior of honey and an interior of poison.

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**Who acts:** King, vain, Creator, woman · **What happens:** look, stand, smile, bow, laugh, befool · **To what, where:** weight, intoxication, woman, instrument

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, vain, Creator, woman), 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:pg68641:9:15
# text = And he looked at her as she stood smiling at him, bowing like a flower from the weight of her bosom and the slenderness of her waist, and laughed in his intoxication, befooled by the roundness of her limbs and the blueness of her eyes, and forgetting that the Creator made woman to be an instrument of delusion, with an exterior of honey and an interior of poison.
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	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	slenderness	slenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	intoxication	intoxication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	befooled	befool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	roundness	roundness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	blueness	blueness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Creator	Creator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
56	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	cop	_	_
59	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	xcomp	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	delusion	delusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	exterior	exterior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
70	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	_
72	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | King |  |  |  |  | at vain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | vain |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund | vain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at King | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bow** | gerund | vain *not said here* |  |  | the weight of vain's bosom and the slenderness of vain's waist |  | like a flower | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in King's intoxication | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in intoxication=Theme |
| 6 | **befool** | participle |  | King's intoxication *not said here* |  |  |  | by the roundness of vain's limbs and the blueness of vain's eyes | tree rules |
| 7 | **forget** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **make** | past | the Creator | woman |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Product |
| 9 | **is a** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | a instrument and a exterior of honey and a interior of poison |  |  |  | of delusion; a exterior of honey and a interior of poison *conj* | tree rules |
| 10 | **bosom** |  | vain |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **intoxicate** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom intoxication «state 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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