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About the stars
There are four kinds of stars:
The first kind is called tramps, because they go here and there in the sky.
The second kind is called stayers, because they stay in place far from the sun.
The third kind is called either diers or fallers, because they go to the earth from the sky.
The fourth kind is called unknown, because they have appeared suddenly, very far away.  The sun is cousin to these kinds of stars; a god has caused its fire to burn with more anger.

Lazene lay
Lazi lisin moch:
Lisen zachan saininan lea furat, lazinen hune jom so jat le denayt.
Lisen zali chazinan lea furat, gyrnie hune lien chazayt.
Lisen zabesh sa runinan sa gulninan lea furat, morchen hune lazini le denayt.
Lisen zamoch nagraysinan lea furat, lazinen hune dolien cyne chylnenayt. Gyrn lazeni liseni jat rhone; tain ruzina gazie domoye
dilenat.

** Grammatical interlinear **

laz.en.e lay
N-loc-p  PST

laz.i    li.s.in  moch
N-nom-p  N-nom-p  NUM.C

li.s.en za.chan sain.in.an lea fur.a.t
N-nom-s NUM.O   N-acc-c    IMP V-prs-3s

laz.in.en hune jom so jat le  den.a.yt
N-loc-c   CONJ ADV....... RFL V-prs-3p

li.s.en za.[i]li chaz.in.an lea fur.a.t
N-nom-s NUM.O    N-acc-c    IMP V-prs-3s

gyrn.ie hune lien chaz.a.yt
N-loc-c CONJ ADV  V-prs-3p

li.s.en za.besh sa   run.in.an sa   gul[y]n.in.an lea fur.a.t
N-nom-s NUM.O   CONJ N-acc-c   CONJ N-acc-c       IMP V-prs-3s

morch.en hune laz.in.i le  den.a.yt
N-ill-s  CONJ N-abl-c  RFL V-prs-3p

li.s.en za.moch na.gray.s.in.an lea fur.a.t
N-nom-s NUM.O   NEG-N-acc-c     IMP V-prs-3s

laz.in.en hune do.lien cyne chyl.[y]n.en.a.yt
N-loc-c   CONJ AUG-ADV ADJ  V-pnc-prf-prs-3p

gyrn    laz.en.i li.s.eni jat rhon.e
N-nom-s N-gen-p  N-gen-p  ADV N-nom-s

tain    ruz.in.a gaz.ie  do.moy.e    dil.en.a.t
N-nom-s N-acc-c  N-ins-s AUG-N-ins-s V-prf-prs-3s

** Abbreviations **

N  nominal (noun or adjective, there's no difference in Ilaini; there's only one actual adjective in the text)

number:
  s  singular
  p  plural
  c  collective plural

case:
  nom  nominative
  gen  genitive
  acc  accusative
  loc  locative
  ill  illative
  abl  ablative
  ins  instrumental

V  verb

number: s or p - collectives take singular or plural verbs depending on meaming

tense:
  prs  present (no other tenses occur in the text)

aspect:
  prf  perfective - the action is completed
  pnc  punctual - the action happens suddenly, one time only, non-continuously

person: 3 (the only one that occurs)

numerals:
  NUM.C  cardinal ("one")
  NUM.O  ordinal ("first")

pronouns:
  IMP  impersonal pronoun, used to make impersonal constructions, see the vocabulary
  RFL  reflexive pronoun, see the vocabulary

CONJ  conjunction
ADV   adverb, adverbial phrase

** Vocabulary **

besh  3
chan  1
chaza  to stay (in a place)
chazan  one who stays
chyla  to appear, to become visible
cyne  immediately, suddenly, right now
dila  to cause, to bring about
do-  augmentative prefix, "very ..."
fura  to name, to call; lea furat "is/are called"
gaz  anger
graya  to know
graysen  something that is known
gulyna  to fall
gulynan  one who falls
gyrn  sun
hune  because
jom so jat ("there and here") everywhere, all over
lay (postposition with the locative)  about, concerning
laz  star
lazi (collective)  the (starry) sky (at night)
le dena ("to put oneself")  to go
ili  2 (inanimate)
lien  far away
lisen ("it-thing")  kind, sort
moch  4
morch  the earth, the ground
moy  great, big
na-  negative prefix ("un-")
rhone  cousin (sharing at least one grandparent)
runa  to die
runan  one who dies
ruzin (collective)  fire
sa  or (sa ... sa ... "either ... or ...")
sainan  tramp, vagrant
tain  god, goddess, deity
za-  ordinal number prefix

** Notes **

Ilaini is pretty strictly SOV, with clause conjunctions (like "because") coming after the first constituent of the clause.

There is no copula; "X is Y" is expressed by "X-nom Y-nom", like in Russian.

Weak vowels can be elided. Elided vowels are in [brackets] in the interlinear and don't appear in the text. Usually, this is unstressed /e/ or /y/ in the syllable after the most accented syllable.

Note the difference between "stars" and "sky": in all cases except the nominative the plain plural has -e- and the collective plural has -i-.  This can be a pitfall in this text...