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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 84

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Then hearing the doom of separation, wild with grief they fell at his feet, and implored him, saying: Fix at least a term to the curse, and a period to our pain.

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**Who acts:** Ascetics, our · **What happens:** hear, fall, implore, say, fix, doom · **To what, where:** doom, grief, feet, fire, term, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ascetics, our), 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:pg68641:2:84
# text = Then hearing the doom of separation, wild with grief they fell at his feet, and implored him, saying: Fix at least a term to the curse, and a period to our pain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | the doom of separation |  |  | then | a period to our pain *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Ascetics *= ascetic* | grief *not said here* |  | fire's feet |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient grief=Result |
| 3 | **implore** | past |  |  | fire |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fix** | infinitive |  | a term |  | least |  | to the curse | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent term=Patient to curse=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **doom** |  |  | separation |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **pain** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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