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title: And now, I must lose no time in escaping from this infatuated sinner… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, I must lose no time in escaping from this infatuated sinner, or worse things may come about. Who acts: I, worse things. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, 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 6, sentence 104

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And now, I must lose no time in escaping from this infatuated sinner, or worse things may come about.

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**Who acts:** I, worse things · **What happens:** lose, escape, infatuate, come about · **To what, where:** infatuated sinner

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, worse things), 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:pg68641:8:104
# text = And now, I must lose no time in escaping from this infatuated sinner, or worse things may come about.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	infatuated	infatuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | must | I |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **escape** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | this infatuated sinner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sinner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **infatuate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come about** | may | worse things |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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