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title: And seized with grief, and an unutterable longing for the repetition… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And seized with grief, and an unutterable longing for the repetition of his life, he exclaimed: O Maheshwara, Maheshwara, let me live my life again. Who acts: thing, O Maheshwara, me, life. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its de
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 106

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And seized with grief, and an unutterable longing for the repetition of his life, he exclaimed: O Maheshwara, Maheshwara, let me live my life again.

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**Who acts:** thing, O Maheshwara, me, life · **What happens:** seize, exclaim, let, live, repeat · **To what, where:** unutterable longing, me, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, O Maheshwara, me, life), 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:pg68641:5:106
# text = And seized with grief, and an unutterable longing for the repetition of his life, he exclaimed: O Maheshwara, Maheshwara, let me live my life again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unutterable	unutterable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	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	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | participle | thing *not said here* | a unutterable longing for the repetition of thing's life |  |  |  | with grief | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | O Maheshwara and Maheshwara | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my life |  |  | again |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 5 | **repeat** |  | thing's life |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=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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