--- title: And a great uproar arose in the streets of the city, and they were f… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And a great uproar arose in the streets of the city, and they were full of noise and shouting: and the news was carried into the neighbouring kingdoms, and immediately crowds of people poured into Indirálaya from every part of Málwá and the Deckan and the North, and every quarter of the world, and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/) / 107 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 107 And a great uproar arose in the streets of the city, and they were full of noise and shouting: and the news was carried into the neighbouring kingdoms, and immediately crowds of people poured into Indirálaya from every part of Málwá and the Deckan and the North, and every quarter of the world, and together with the merchants and the working castes, who all abandoned their ordinary business, gathered in knots and stood about, asking eagerly for news of that Lotus Land, and its nature, and its locality, and its peculiarities. **Who acts:** great uproar, streets, crowds, working castes · **What happens:** arise, be, carry, pour, abandon, gather · **To what, where:** nature, streets, news, neighbouring kingdoms, Indirálaya, ordinary business 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 (great uproar, streets, crowds, working castes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:3:107 # text = And a great uproar arose in the streets of the city, and they were full of noise and shouting: and the news was carried into the neighbouring kingdoms, and immediately crowds of people poured into Indirálaya from every part of Málwá and the Deckan and the North, and every quarter of the world, and together with the merchants and the working castes, who all abandoned their ordinary business, gathered in knots and stood about, asking eagerly for news of that Lotus Land, and its nature, and its locality, and its peculiarities. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 great great ADJ 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NN Number=Sing 67 compound _ _ 67 castes caste NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 69 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 71 nsubj _ _ 70 all all ADV RB _ 71 advmod _ _ 71 abandoned abandon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 67 parataxis _ _ 72 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 74 nmod:poss _ _ 73 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 75 , , PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 76 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 74 acl _ _ 77 in in ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 78 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 76 obl _ _ 79 and and CCONJ CC _ 80 cc _ _ 80 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 71 conj _ _ 81 about about ADV RB _ 80 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 82 , , PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 83 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 80 advcl _ _ 84 eagerly eagerly ADV RB _ 83 advmod _ _ 85 for for ADP IN _ 86 case _ _ 86 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 83 obl _ _ 87 of of ADP IN _ 90 case _ _ 88 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 90 nsubj _ _ 89 Lotus Lotus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 90 compound _ _ 90 Land Land PROPN NNP Number=Sing 86 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 91 , , PUNCT , _ 94 punct _ _ 92 and and CCONJ CC _ 94 cc _ _ 93 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 94 nmod:poss _ _ 94 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 95 , , PUNCT , _ 98 punct _ _ 96 and and CCONJ CC _ 98 cc _ _ 97 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 98 nmod:poss _ _ 98 locality locality NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 99 , , PUNCT , _ 102 punct _ _ 100 and and CCONJ CC _ 102 cc _ _ 101 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 102 nmod:poss _ _ 102 peculiarities peculiarity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 103 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | a great uproar | news's nature | | the streets of the city | | with the merchants the working castes; news's locality *obl*; news's peculiarities *obl*; every quarter of the world *parataxis*; together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | streets *= street* | | | | | of noise and shouting; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | past · passive | | the news | | the neighbouring kingdoms | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **pour** | past | crowds of people | | | Indirálaya | | from every part of Málwá and the Deckan and the North | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into indirálaya=Destination from part=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **abandon** | past | the working castes | crowds's ordinary business | | | | all *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme business=Source | | 6 | **gather** | participle | | crowds's ordinary business *not said here* | | knots | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | past | the working castes *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the working castes *not said here* | | | | | for news of Lotus Land that; eagerly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/108/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/)