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title: Leave me awhile, for I must consider this matter. — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave me awhile, for I must consider this matter. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, 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 7, sentence 11

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Leave me awhile, for I must consider this matter.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** leave, consider · **To what, where:** me, matter

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg68641:9:11
# text = Leave me awhile, for I must consider this matter.
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | awhile *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **consider** | must | I | this matter |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute |

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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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