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description: For they fell under a curse, and so became mortals: but when they meet here, and the circumstances are favourable, their curse will have an end. Who acts: lamentations, circumstances, curse. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, with its d
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 52

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For they fell under a curse, and so became mortals: but when they meet here, and the circumstances are favourable, their curse will have an end.

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**Who acts:** lamentations, circumstances, curse · **What happens:** fall, become, meet, be, have, curse · **To what, where:** curse, mortals, end

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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 (lamentations, circumstances, curse), 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:pg68641:8:52
# text = For they fell under a curse, and so became mortals: but when they meet here, and the circumstances are favourable, their curse will have an end.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | lamentations *= lamentation* |  |  | a curse |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under curse=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | lamentations *= lamentation* *not said here* | mortals |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | present | lamentations *= lamentation* |  |  | here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the circumstances |  |  |  |  | favourable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | future | lamentations's curse | a end |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 6 | **curse** |  | lamentations *= lamentation* |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: 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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