The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 73

For here I am in Indirálayá, and there are the very criers whom I left behind me, crying, and beating, just as they did before, their drums!

Who acts: criers, I · What happens: be, leave, cry, do · To what, where: Indirálayá, criers

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (criers, I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 here	case
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Indirálayá	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Indirálayá	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Indirálayá	case
6	Indirálayá	Indirálayá	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 here	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 are	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 criers	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 criers	advmod
13	criers	crier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 here	nsubj
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 left	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 left	nsubj
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 criers	acl:relcl
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 left	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crying	punct
20	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 left	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beating	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beating	cc
23	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	28 did	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 did	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 here	csubj
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 did	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 drums	nmod:poss
32	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 here	nsubj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the criers			beating conj; criers's drums nsubj; here property	tree rules
2	is	present	I		Indirálayá		tree rules
3	leave	past	I	the criers		behind me	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme behind i=Location
4	cry speech: express	gerund	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past	criers = crier			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 73