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title: Or does the dream really point to a previous existence? — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Or does the dream really point to a previous existence? Who acts: dream. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, 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 1, sentence 69

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Or does the dream really point to a previous existence?

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**Who acts:** dream · **What happens:** point · **To what, where:** previous existence

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream), 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:pg68641:3:69
# text = Or does the dream really point to a previous existence?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | present · do-support | the dream |  | a previous existence |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to existence=Recipient |

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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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