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title: And suddenly memory came upon that old King, and out of the darkness… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And suddenly memory came upon that old King, and out of the darkness of the past there rose before him the series of his former lives. Who acts: memory. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 108

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And suddenly memory came upon that old King, and out of the darkness of the past there rose before him the series of his former lives.

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**Who acts:** memory · **What happens:** come, rise · **To what, where:** series, darkness

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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 (memory), 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:pg68641:5:108
# text = And suddenly memory came upon that old King, and out of the darkness of the past there rose before him the series of his former lives.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | memory |  |  |  |  | upon old King  that; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon king=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | past | memory *not said here* | the series of memory's former lives |  | the darkness of the past; there | before memory |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location series=Theme |

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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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