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title: For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that lies, either in going forward or going back. Who acts: certain death. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, 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 4, sentence 103

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For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that lies, either in going forward or going back.

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**Who acts:** certain death · **What happens:** remain, be, lie, go, go back

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain death), 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:pg68641:6:104
# text = For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that lies, either in going forward or going back.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | the certain death *parataxis*; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the certain death |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | the certain death *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go back** | gerund | the certain death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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