🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 80

And nations, like the characters in our story, cling desperately, in periods of degradation and eclipse, to all that reminds them of a former state of ideal prosperity, which lingers in their literature and echoes in their souls, like dim recollections of a forgotten paradise, or faint reminiscences of a former birth.

Who acts: that, ideal prosperity, former birth · What happens: remind, linger, forget, recollect, reminisce · To what, where: degradation, literature, nations, forgotten paradise

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, ideal prosperity, former birth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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