Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 12
A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weariness creeping through my every fibre and muscle.
Who acts: sickness, languor · What happens: rack, creep · To what, where: languor, fibre
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 (sickness, languor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sickness | det |
| 2 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 racking | aux |
| 4 | racking | rack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racking | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bones | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 languor | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 languor | det |
| 13 | languor | languor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racking | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weariness | cc |
| 15 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 languor | conj |
| 16 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 languor | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 fibre | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fibre | nmod:poss |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 fibre | det |
| 20 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creeping | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 muscle | cc |
| 22 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fibre | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 racking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rack | past · progressive | a sickness | a languor and weariness | in every one of my bones | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | creep | gerund | a languor and weariness not said here | my fibre and muscle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fibre=Trajectory |
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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