Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 6
I knew the secret caves where ocean roars to ocean; the floods that are icy cold, from which the nose of a salmon leaps back as at a sting; and the warm streams in which we rocked and dozed and were carried forward without motion.
Who acts: I, ocean, floods, nose, we · What happens: know, roar, be, leap back, rock, doze · To what, where: secret caves, ocean, warm streams
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, ocean, floods, nose), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 caves | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caves | compound |
| 5 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 roars | advmod |
| 7 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roars | nsubj |
| 8 | roars | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caves | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ocean | case |
| 10 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roars | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 cold | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floods | det |
| 13 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cold | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cold | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cold | cop |
| 16 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cold | amod |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaps | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 leaps | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nose | det |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaps | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 salmon | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 salmon | det |
| 25 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nose | nmod |
| 26 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cold | advcl |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 leaps | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 sting | case |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 sting | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sting | det |
| 31 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaps | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 streams | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 streams | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 streams | det |
| 35 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 streams | amod |
| 36 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 rocked | obl |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 rocked | nsubj |
| 40 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 streams | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dozed | cc |
| 42 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 rocked | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 carried | cc |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 carried | aux:pass |
| 45 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 dozed | conj |
| 46 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 45 carried | advmod |
| 47 | without | without | ADP | _ | 48 motion | case |
| 48 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 carried | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | the secret caves | the warm streams obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | roar | present | ocean | ocean | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ocean=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the floods | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leap back | present | the nose of a salmon | as a sting | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | rock | past | we | the warm streams | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 6 | doze | past | we not said here | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | carry forward | past · passive | we not said here | without motion; forward property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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