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title: Since I must now in any case perish, why should I go on climbing in… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Since I must now in any case perish, why should I go on climbing in vain? Who acts: I. 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 94

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Since I must now in any case perish, why should I go on climbing in vain?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** perish, go · **To what, where:** case, climbing

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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 (I), 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:pg68641:6:95
# text = Since I must now in any case perish, why should I go on climbing in vain?
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | must | I |  |  | any case | now |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | should | I |  |  | climbing |  | in vain | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on climbing=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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