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title: For the sight of her half-remembered eyes clutched his heart, and st… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For the sight of her half-remembered eyes clutched his heart, and stopped its beating like an iron band. Who acts: remembered eyes, sight. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, 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 2, sentence 72

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For the sight of her half-remembered eyes clutched his heart, and stopped its beating like an iron band.

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**Who acts:** remembered eyes, sight · **What happens:** remember, clutch, stop, beat · **To what, where:** heart, beating

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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 (remembered eyes, sight), 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:pg68641:4:72
# text = For the sight of her half-remembered eyes clutched his heart, and stopped its beating like an iron band.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	clutched	clutch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clutch** | past | lion's remembered eyes | Umra's heart |  |  |  | for the sight | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | past | lion's remembered eyes *not said here* | sight's beating |  |  |  | like a iron band | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality beating=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beat** |  | sight |  |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act 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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