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title: And the deeper she went into the wood, the more her spirit sank, and… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And the deeper she went into the wood, the more her spirit sank, and the more her soul longed for the nectar of her husband's arms. Who acts: animal, spirit, soul. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 45

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And the deeper she went into the wood, the more her spirit sank, and the more her soul longed for the nectar of her husband's arms.

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**Who acts:** animal, spirit, soul · **What happens:** go, sink, long · **To what, where:** wood

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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, spirit, soul), 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:pg68641:9:45
# text = And the deeper she went into the wood, the more her spirit sank, and the more her soul longed for the nectar of her husband's arms.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | animal |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sink** | past | animal's spirit |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **long** | past | animal's soul |  |  |  |  | for the nectar of animal's husband's arms | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nectar=Theme |

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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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