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title: Therefore now I will abandon the dwellings of men, and enter the Gre… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore now I will abandon the dwellings of men, and enter the Great Forest, for only in this way will it ever be possible for me to discover a land of which no human being has ever heard. Who acts: I, it, me. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 34

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Therefore now I will abandon the dwellings of men, and enter the Great Forest, for only in this way will it ever be possible for me to discover a land of which no human being has ever heard.

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**Who acts:** I, it, me · **What happens:** abandon, enter, be, discover, hear · **To what, where:** dwellings, Great Forest, way, land, human

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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, it, me), 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:pg68641:5:34
# text = Therefore now I will abandon the dwellings of men, and enter the Great Forest, for only in this way will it ever be possible for me to discover a land of which no human being has ever heard.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	40	advmod	_	_
40	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | future | I | the dwellings of men |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme dwelling=Source |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | the Great Forest |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | future | it |  |  | this way | ever | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | to-infinitive | me | a land |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | no human |  |  | ever | of a land | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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