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title: And the criers did not recognise him, but they were full of joy at h… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And the criers did not recognise him, but they were full of joy at hearing his words: for their crying had made them weary of life. Who acts: criers, Indirálayá. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 76

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And the criers did not recognise him, but they were full of joy at hearing his words: for their crying had made them weary of life.

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**Who acts:** criers, Indirálayá · **What happens:** not recognise, be, hear, make, word, cry · **To what, where:** Indirálayá, words, criers

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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 (criers, Indirálayá), 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:pg68641:7:76
# text = And the criers did not recognise him, but they were full of joy at hearing his words: for their crying had made them weary of life.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recognise** | past · do-support | the criers | Indirálayá |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | criers *= crier* |  |  |  |  | of joy; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | criers *= crier* *not said here* | Indirálayá's words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | the criers *not said here* | criers *= crier* |  |  |  | for criers's crying; weary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent they=Product for crying=Asset |
| 5 | **word** |  | Indirálayá |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **cry** |  | criers *= crier* |  |  |  |  |  | nom crying «act transitive»: poss=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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