The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 105

And buzzing like bees, they thronged around the criers, and ran up and down, everybody asking everybody else: What is this Land of the Lotus of the Sun?

Who acts: bees, everybody · What happens: buzz, throng, run up, ask, be · To what, where: criers, everybody, Land

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 buzzing	cc
2	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thronged	advcl
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 bees	case
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buzzing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 buzzing	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thronged	nsubj
7	thronged	throng	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 criers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 criers	det
10	criers	crier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thronged	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thronged	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 down	cc
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 up	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asking	punct
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 asking	nsubj
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ran	advcl
20	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 asking	obj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 everybody	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Land	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 Land	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Land	cop
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 Land	det
26	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asking	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Lotus	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lotus	det
29	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Land	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Sun	det
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Lotus	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thronged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	buzz	gerund	bees = bee not said here				like bees	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throng	past	bees = bee			the criers		vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around crier=Location
3	run up	past	bees = bee not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	everybody		everybody			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient
5	is a	present		this Land			of the Lotus of the Sun; What nsubj	tree rules

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.

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 105