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title: For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reac… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reach it, and meet with my death at the same time. Who acts: extraordinary tree, I, my. 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 ev
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 88

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For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reach it, and meet with my death at the same time.

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**Who acts:** extraordinary tree, I, my · **What happens:** have, reach, meet, die · **To what, where:** top

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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 (extraordinary tree, I, my), 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:pg68641:6:89
# text = For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reach it, and meet with my death at the same time.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this extraordinary tree | no top |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | must | I | top |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with my death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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