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title: Go and show thyself in cities, and I tell thee, the Kings of the ear… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and show thyself in cities, and I tell thee, the Kings of the earth would quit their kingdoms, and follow thee about like a swarm of bees. Who acts: you, I, Kings. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 89

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Go and show thyself in cities, and I tell thee, the Kings of the earth would quit their kingdoms, and follow thee about like a swarm of bees.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Kings · **What happens:** go, show, tell, quit, follow · **To what, where:** thyself, thee, kingdoms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Kings), 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:pg68641:5:89
# text = Go and show thyself in cities, and I tell thee, the Kings of the earth would quit their kingdoms, and follow thee about like a swarm of bees.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Kings	King	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  | in cities | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient in city=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **quit** | would | the Kings of the earth | companion's kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source |
| 5 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | like a swarm of bees; about *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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