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title: And do it very quickly, for this is an opportunity which will never… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And do it very quickly, for this is an opportunity which will never occur again. Who acts: you, this, opportunity. 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 22

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And do it very quickly, for this is an opportunity which will never occur again.

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**Who acts:** you, this, opportunity · **What happens:** do, be, not occur · **To what, where:** escape

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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, this, opportunity), 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:pg68641:9:22
# text = And do it very quickly, for this is an opportunity which will never occur again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | escape |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a opportunity | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **occur** | future | a opportunity |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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