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title: So day by day the proclamation sounded in the streets: and all day l… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: So day by day the proclamation sounded in the streets: and all day long the city was full of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums, and all night long sleep fled from the eyes of the citizens, as if in disgust at the noise that they made by day. Who acts: proclamation, day, long sleep, streets
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 109

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So day by day the proclamation sounded in the streets: and all day long the city was full of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums, and all night long sleep fled from the eyes of the citizens, as if in disgust at the noise that they made by day.

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**Who acts:** proclamation, day, long sleep, streets, shouting criers · **What happens:** sound, be, shout, beat, flee, make · **To what, where:** streets, din, eyes, noise

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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 (proclamation, day, long sleep, streets), 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:pg68641:3:109
# text = So day by day the proclamation sounded in the streets: and all day long the city was full of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums, and all night long sleep fled from the eyes of the citizens, as if in disgust at the noise that they made by day.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the proclamation |  |  | the streets | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | all day |  |  |  |  | of the din of shouting criers and beaten drums; the city *nsubj*; full, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flee** | past | long sleep | the din of shouting criers and beaten drums *not said here* |  | the eyes of the citizens | night | as disgust at the noise | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme din=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **make** | past | streets *= street* | the noise *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 7 | **din** |  | shouting criers and beaten drums |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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