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title: For anything characteristic of multitudes must be very common: and y… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For anything characteristic of multitudes must be very common: and yet how can that which is common escape the notice of all? 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 51

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For anything characteristic of multitudes must be very common: and yet how can that which is common escape the notice of all?

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**What happens:** be, escape · **To what, where:** notice

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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: 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:pg68641:5:51
# text = For anything characteristic of multitudes must be very common: and yet how can that which is common escape the notice of all?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	compound	_	_
3	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | for anything characteristic of multitudes; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **escape** | infinitive |  | the notice of all |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial\_Location |

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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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