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title: Then the moon rose, and stole through the trees and kissed her with… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the moon rose, and stole through the trees and kissed her with beams that trembled with admiration[3]; and the wild animals came down, one by one, to drink at the pool, and obedient to the commands of Triambaka, did her no harm, but licked her feet and hands as she lay. Who acts: moon, beams, w
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 67

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Then the moon rose, and stole through the trees and kissed her with beams that trembled with admiration\[3\]; and the wild animals came down, one by one, to drink at the pool, and obedient to the commands of Triambaka, did her no harm, but licked her feet and hands as she lay.

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**Who acts:** moon, beams, wild animals, animal · **What happens:** rise, steal, kiss, tremble, come down, drink · **To what, where:** trees, moon, one, pool, harm, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (moon, beams, wild animals, animal), 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:pg68641:9:67
# text = Then the moon rose, and stole through the trees and kissed her with beams that trembled with admiration[3]; and the wild animals came down, one by one, to drink at the pool, and obedient to the commands of Triambaka, did her no harm, but licked her feet and hands as she lay.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Triambaka	Triambaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	_
60	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | past | the moon *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
| 3 | **kiss** | past | the moon *not said here* | moon |  |  |  | with beams | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with beam=Instrument |
| 4 | **tremble** | past | beams |  |  |  |  | with admiration | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come down** | past | the wild animals | one by one |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the wild animals *not said here* |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | past | the moon *not said here* | animal's harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 8 | **lick** | past | the moon *not said here* | animal's feet and hands |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source |
| 9 | **lay** | infinitive | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **command** |  |  | Triambaka |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **harm** |  | animal |  |  |  |  |  | nom harm «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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