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title: And in an instant he forgot his journey and his toil, and obtained i… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And in an instant he forgot his journey and his toil, and obtained in that moment the nectar of emancipation from the hunger of longing, and the pain of separation, and the terror of untimely death. Who acts: Umra, longing. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 93

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And in an instant he forgot his journey and his toil, and obtained in that moment the nectar of emancipation from the hunger of longing, and the pain of separation, and the terror of untimely death.

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**Who acts:** Umra, longing · **What happens:** forget, obtain, journey, toil, hunger, pain · **To what, where:** journey, instant, separation

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, longing), 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:pg68641:7:93
# text = And in an instant he forgot his journey and his toil, and obtained in that moment the nectar of emancipation from the hunger of longing, and the pain of separation, and the terror of untimely death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	untimely	untimely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | Umra | Umra's journey and Umra's toil |  | a instant |  | the pain of separation *parataxis*; the terror of untimely death *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | participle | Umra *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **toil** |  | Umra |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **hunger** |  | longing |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **pain** |  |  | separation |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=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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