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title: So now, nothing remains but to do as quickly as possible what I was… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So now, nothing remains but to do as quickly as possible what I was about to do before I went to the palace, and put myself, in very truth, to death. Who acts: nothing, I. 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 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 20

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So now, nothing remains but to do as quickly as possible what I was about to do before I went to the palace, and put myself, in very truth, to death.

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**Who acts:** nothing, I · **What happens:** remain, do, be, go, put · **To what, where:** palace, myself

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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 (nothing, I), 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:pg68641:5:20
# text = So now, nothing remains but to do as quickly as possible what I was about to do before I went to the palace, and put myself, in very truth, to death.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
28	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | nothing |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj*; quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | I |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | nothing *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | to death; truth *conj* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal |

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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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