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title: And he leaped out of the water, and ran up the steps like one that i… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And he leaped out of the water, and ran up the steps like one that is mad, and went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease this useless crying, and this empty beating of drums, and take me quickly to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land. Who acts: Indirálayá, I. A sentence of «The descent of
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 75

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And he leaped out of the water, and ran up the steps like one that is mad, and went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease this useless crying, and this empty beating of drums, and take me quickly to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land.

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**Who acts:** Indirálayá, I · **What happens:** leap out, run up, be, go up, say, cease · **To what, where:** water, steps, criers, useless crying, me, King · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indirálayá, I), 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:pg68641:7:75
# text = And he leaped out of the water, and ran up the steps like one that is mad, and went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease this useless crying, and this empty beating of drums, and take me quickly to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap out** | past | Indirálayá | the water |  |  |  | this empty beating of drums *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run up** | past | Indirálayá *not said here* | the steps |  |  |  | like one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go up** | past | Indirálayá *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the criers | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | criers *= crier* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 6 | **cease** | infinitive |  | this useless crying |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crying=Eventuality |
| 7 | **take** | infinitive |  | me | the King |  |  | quickly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Destination |
| 8 | **see** | present · perfect | I | Lotus Land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **beat** |  |  | drums |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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