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title: Know, that I also have all my life been looking, not for one way onl… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Know, that I also have all my life been looking, not for one way only, but for three. Who acts: you, I, life. 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 clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 46

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Know, that I also have all my life been looking, not for one way only, but for three.

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**Who acts:** you, I, life · **What happens:** know, have, look · **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 (you, I, life), 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:pg68641:5:46
# text = Know, that I also have all my life been looking, not for one way only, but for three.
1	Know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | participle · progressive | life |  |  |  |  | for one way; my *nmod:poss* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for way=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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