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title: Descend now, ye guilty ones, into mortal wombs, and suffer in the lo… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Descend now, ye guilty ones, into mortal wombs, and suffer in the lower world the pangs of separation, till ye have purged away your guilt in the fire of human sorrow. Who acts: you, ye. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and t
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 83

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Descend now, ye guilty ones, into mortal wombs, and suffer in the lower world the pangs of separation, till ye have purged away your guilt in the fire of human sorrow.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** descend, one, suffer, purge away, fire · **To what, where:** mortal wombs, lower world, ye, fire, human sorrow

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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 (you, ye), 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:pg68641:2:83
# text = Descend now, ye guilty ones, into mortal wombs, and suffer in the lower world the pangs of separation, till ye have purged away your guilt in the fire of human sorrow.
1	Descend	descend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wombs	womb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	purged	purge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | mortal wombs | now |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into womb=Location |
| 2 | **one** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **suffer** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the lower world |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **purge away** | present · perfect · passive |  | ye |  | the fire of human sorrow |  | your guilt *obj*; away *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | human sorrow |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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