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title: Love's sacred fire met in this case, for once, with an element more… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Love's sacred fire met in this case, for once, with an element more potent than his own. Who acts: sacred fire, Love. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 120

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Love's sacred fire met in this case, for once, with an element more potent than his own.

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**Who acts:** sacred fire, Love · **What happens:** meet, fire · **To what, where:** case

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacred fire, Love), 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:pg68641:2:120
# text = Love's sacred fire met in this case, for once, with an element more potent than his own.
1	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	potent	potent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Love's sacred fire |  |  | this case |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fire** |  | Love |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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