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title: And now it will be better for us not to venture upon the verge of a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And now it will be better for us not to venture upon the verge of a precipice, over which we may both fall, into irreparable disaster. Who acts: it, us, we. 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 57

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And now it will be better for us not to venture upon the verge of a precipice, over which we may both fall, into irreparable disaster.

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**Who acts:** it, us, we · **What happens:** be, not venture, fall · **To what, where:** irreparable disaster

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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 (it, us, we), 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:pg68641:2:57
# text = And now it will be better for us not to venture upon the verge of a precipice, over which we may both fall, into irreparable disaster.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	verge	verge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	both	both	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	irreparable	irreparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | it |  |  |  | now | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **venture** | to-infinitive | us |  |  |  |  | upon the verge of a precipice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | may | we |  |  | irreparable disaster |  | which *obl*; both *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over which=Initial\_Location into disaster=Destination |

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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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