The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 76

And the criers did not recognise him, but they were full of joy at hearing his words: for their crying had made them weary of life.

Who acts: criers, Indirálayá · What happens: not recognise, be, hear, make, word, cry · To what, where: Indirálayá, words, 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, Indirálayá), 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	_	6 recognise	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 criers	det
3	criers	crier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognise	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognise	advmod
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 recognise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 full	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 full	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 full	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 full	cop
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 recognise	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 joy	case
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 hearing	mark
16	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 full	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 words	nmod:poss
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hearing	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 crying	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 crying	nmod:poss
22	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 recognise	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 life	case
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weary	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not recognise	past · do-support	the criers	Indirálayá		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	criers = crier		of joy; full property	tree rules
3	hear	gerund	criers = crier not said here	Indirálayá's words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	make	past · perfect	the criers not said here	criers = crier	for criers's crying; weary property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent they=Product for crying=Asset
5	word		Indirálayá			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	cry		criers = crier			nom crying «act transitive»: poss=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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 76