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title: All day long, I have sought thee: but I have found thee in the eveni… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: All day long, I have sought thee: but I have found thee in the evening, before my sun goes down: that is enough. Who acts: I, sun, that. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 81

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All day long, I have sought thee: but I have found thee in the evening, before my sun goes down: that is enough.

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**Who acts:** I, sun, that · **What happens:** seek, find, go down, be · **To what, where:** thee

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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 (I, sun, that), 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:pg68641:10:81
# text = All day long, I have sought thee: but I have found thee in the evening, before my sun goes down: that is enough.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  | evening |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic |
| 3 | **go down** | present | my sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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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