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title: For here I am, about to put myself to death; and what greater evil c… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For here I am, about to put myself to death; and what greater evil can befall me at the hands of the King, even though he should discover the deceit? Who acts: I, greater evil, evil. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, with its dependenc
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 43

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For here I am, about to put myself to death; and what greater evil can befall me at the hands of the King, even though he should discover the deceit?

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**Who acts:** I, greater evil, evil · **What happens:** be, put, befall, discover · **To what, where:** myself, me, hands, deceit

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, greater evil, evil), 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:pg68641:4:43
# text = For here I am, about to put myself to death; and what greater evil can befall me at the hands of the King, even though he should discover the deceit?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advcl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
15	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | myself |  |  |  | to death; about *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal |
| 3 | **befall** | can | greater evil | me |  | the hands of the King |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | should | evil | the deceit |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deceit=Topic |

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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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