Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 3
In these latitudes I moved through a world of amber, myself amber and gold; in those others, in a sparkle of lucent blue, I curved, lit like a living jewel: and in these again, through dusks of ebony all mazed with silver, I shot and shone, the wonder of the sea.
Who acts: I, myself · What happens: move, amber, curve, lit, maze, shoot · To what, where: latitudes, sparkle, these, wonder, sea
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, myself), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 latitudes | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 latitudes | det |
| 3 | latitudes | latitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 amber | case |
| 10 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 world | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 amber | punct |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 amber | nsubj |
| 13 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gold | cc |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 amber | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sparkle | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sparkle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sparkle | det |
| 23 | sparkle | sparkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 others | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 blue | case |
| 25 | lucent | lucent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blue | amod |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sparkle | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 curved | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 curved | nsubj |
| 29 | curved | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 blue | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lit | punct |
| 31 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sparkle | acl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 jewel | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 jewel | det |
| 34 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 jewel | amod |
| 35 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lit | obl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 mazed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 mazed | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 these | case |
| 39 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 mazed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 these | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dusks | punct |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 43 dusks | case |
| 43 | dusks | dusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 mazed | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 ebony | case |
| 45 | ebony | ebony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dusks | nmod |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 mazed | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | mazed | maze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moved | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 silver | case |
| 49 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 mazed | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 shot | punct |
| 51 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 shot | nsubj |
| 52 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 mazed | parataxis |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 shone | cc |
| 54 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 shot | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 wonder | punct |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 wonder | det |
| 57 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 shone | obj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 sea | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 sea | det |
| 60 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 wonder | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | I | this latitudes | through a world of amber; in that others in a sparkle of lucent blue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in latitude=Source through world=Trajectory in other=Destination | |||
| 2 | amber | myself | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | curve | past | I | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lit | participle | a sparkle of lucent blue not said here | like a living jewel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | maze | participle · passive | these | with silver | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | shoot | past | I | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | shine | past | I not said here | the wonder of the sea | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme | ||||
| 8 | wonder | the sea | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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