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title: And she tore her clothes to pieces in the bushes, and pierced her fe… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she tore her clothes to pieces in the bushes, and pierced her feet with their thorns, leaving where she passed on the grass drops of blood, like rubies, mingled with the pearls of her tears that fell beside them, as often as she thought of her absent husband. Who acts: animal, leaving, tears. A 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 44

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And she tore her clothes to pieces in the bushes, and pierced her feet with their thorns, leaving where she passed on the grass drops of blood, like rubies, mingled with the pearls of her tears that fell beside them, as often as she thought of her absent husband.

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**Who acts:** animal, leaving, tears · **What happens:** tore, pierce, leave, pass, drop, mingle · **To what, where:** clothes, bushes, feet, grass, rubies

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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 (animal, leaving, tears), 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:pg68641:9:44
# text = And she tore her clothes to pieces in the bushes, and pierced her feet with their thorns, leaving where she passed on the grass drops of blood, like rubies, mingled with the pearls of her tears that fell beside them, as often as she thought of her absent husband.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	often	often	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past | animal | animal's clothes |  | the bushes |  | to pieces | tree rules |
| 2 | **pierce** | past | animal *not said here* | animal's feet |  |  |  | with feet's thorns | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with thorn=Instrument |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | past | animal |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=Location |
| 5 | **drop** | present | leaving |  |  |  |  | of blood; like rubies | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of blood=Trajectory |
| 6 | **mingle** | participle |  | rubies *not said here* |  |  |  | with the pearls of animal's tears | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pearl=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **fall** | past | animal's tears |  |  |  |  | beside feet *= foot* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside they=Location |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | animal |  |  |  |  | of animal's absent husband; often *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **pearl** |  | animal's tears |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=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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