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title: A single long piece of stuff, wound like a petticoat round the waist… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: A single long piece of stuff, wound like a petticoat round the waist, secured, and thrown over the head to form a veil, forms a garment that the Greeks might have envied. Who acts: single long piece, Greeks. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., p
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 31

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A single long piece of stuff, wound like a petticoat round the waist, secured, and thrown over the head to form a veil, forms a garment that the Greeks might have envied.

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**Who acts:** single long piece, Greeks · **What happens:** secure, throw, form, envy · **To what, where:** head, veil, garment

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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 (single long piece, Greeks), 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:pg68641:9:31
# text = A single long piece of stuff, wound like a petticoat round the waist, secured, and thrown over the head to form a veil, forms a garment that the Greeks might have envied.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
28	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	envied	envy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  | the head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over head=Destination |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | a veil |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location veil=Theme |
| 4 | **form** | present | a single long piece of stuff and wound like a petticoat round the waist | a garment |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme |
| 5 | **envy** | might · perfect | the Greeks |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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