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title: Alas! no sooner had I found my dream than again I lost her, through… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas! no sooner had I found my dream than again I lost her, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth. Who acts: I, my. 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 every cla
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 19

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Alas! no sooner had I found my dream than again I lost her, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** have, find, lose, commit, dream, operate · **To what, where:** dream, moon, terrible operation, sins, former birth · **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 (I, my), 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:pg68641:5:19
# text = Alas! no sooner had I found my dream than again I lost her, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth.
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | I | my dream |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dream=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | I | moon |  | the terrible operation of sins | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **commit** | participle |  | sins *not said here* |  | a former birth |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in birth=Destination |
| 5 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **operate** |  |  | sins |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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