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title: For alas! every man that sees me is blinded by my eyes, and I shall… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: For alas! every man that sees me is blinded by my eyes, and I shall not always find a door of escape from persecution. Who acts: man, eyes, 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 claus
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 40

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For alas! every man that sees me is blinded by my eyes, and I shall not always find a door of escape from persecution.

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**Who acts:** man, eyes, I · **What happens:** see, blind, not find · **To what, where:** me, man, door

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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 (man, eyes, 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:pg68641:9:40
# text = For alas! every man that sees me is blinded by my eyes, and I shall not always find a door of escape from persecution.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | every man | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blind** | present · passive | my eyes | every man |  |  |  | for alas | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** | shall | I | a door of escape from persecution |  |  |  | always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |

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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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