Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 1

“I became the king of the salmon, and, with my multitudes, I ranged on the tides of the world.

Who acts: I, world · What happens: become, range, tide · To what, where: king, tides

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 salmon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salmon	det
8	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ranged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ranged	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 multitudes	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 multitudes	nmod:poss
14	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ranged	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 multitudes	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ranged	nsubj
17	ranged	range	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 tides	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tides	det
20	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ranged	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tides	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past	I	the king of the salmon			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	range in a quote	past	I		the tides of the world	with my multitudes	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	tide in a quote		the world				nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent

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.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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