--- title: For life seemed unendurable, before I had found the woman of my drea… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: For life seemed unendurable, before I had found the woman of my dream: but now it is worse by far, since I have found her only to become in her eyes a thing of scorn, more horrible than a hundred deaths. Who acts: I, dream, my. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/) / 21 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 21 For life seemed unendurable, before I had found the woman of my dream: but now it is worse by far, since I have found her only to become in her eyes a thing of scorn, more horrible than a hundred deaths. **Who acts:** I, dream, my · **What happens:** seem, find, be, become, dream · **To what, where:** woman, eyes 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, dream, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:5:21 # text = For life seemed unendurable, before I had found the woman of my dream: but now it is worse by far, since I have found her only to become in her eyes a thing of scorn, more horrible than a hundred deaths. 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 3 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unendurable unendurable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 since since SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 xcomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 41 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | | | | | | for life; unendurable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past · perfect | I | the woman of my dream | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | dream | | | | now | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | I | woman | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 5 | **become** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | woman's eyes | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **dream** | | my | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/22/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/5/)