The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 89

Go and show thyself in cities, and I tell thee, the Kings of the earth would quit their kingdoms, and follow thee about like a swarm of bees.

Who acts: you, I, Kings · What happens: go, show, tell, quit, follow · To what, where: thyself, thee, kingdoms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. 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, Kings), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 show	cc
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	3 show	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 cities	case
6	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 tell	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Kings	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Kings	det
14	Kings	King	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 quit	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Kings	nmod
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 quit	aux
19	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	ccomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kingdoms	nmod:poss
21	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 quit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 follow	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 follow	cc
24	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 follow	obj
26	about	about	ADV	_	24 follow	advmod
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 swarm	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 swarm	det
29	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 follow	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 bees	case
31	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 swarm	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	infinitive	you not said here	thyself		in cities	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient in city=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
4	quit	would	the Kings of the earth	companion's kingdoms			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source
5	follow	infinitive	you not said here	thee		like a swarm of bees; about property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme

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 3, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 89