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title: For they wear the guise of a friend, and so finding entrance into my… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For they wear the guise of a friend, and so finding entrance into my heart sting it like serpents, turning into poison the nectar of him whom most of all I long to see. Who acts: Hindoos, heart, I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, wit
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 37

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For they wear the guise of a friend, and so finding entrance into my heart sting it like serpents, turning into poison the nectar of him whom most of all I long to see.

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**Who acts:** Hindoos, heart, I · **What happens:** wear, find, sting, turn, see · **To what, where:** guise, entrance, poison

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, heart, I), 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:pg68641:10:37
# text = For they wear the guise of a friend, and so finding entrance into my heart sting it like serpents, turning into poison the nectar of him whom most of all I long to see.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Hindoos *= hindoo* | the guise of a friend |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guise=Source |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | Hindoos *= hindoo* *not said here* | entrance |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Topic |
| 3 | **sting** | infinitive | my heart | entrance |  |  |  | like serpents | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund | Hindoos *= hindoo* *not said here* |  |  | poison |  | of all  the nectar of heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into poison=Source of all=Trajectory |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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