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title: And buzzing like bees, they thronged around the criers, and ran up a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, with its dependency t
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 105

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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?

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:3:105
# text = 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?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thronged	throng	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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