Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 7

I swam on the outermost rim of the great world, where nothing was but the sea and the sky and the salmon; where even the wind was silent, and the water was clear as clean grey rock.

Who acts: I, nothing, wind, water · What happens: swim, be · To what, where: outermost rim, 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, nothing, wind, water), 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 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 rim	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rim	det
5	outermost	outermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rim	amod
6	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swam	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rim	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sea	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sea	advmod
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 sea	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sea	cop
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sea	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rim	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sky	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sea	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 salmon	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 salmon	det
23	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rim	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 silent	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 silent	advmod
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 wind	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 silent	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 silent	cop
30	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swam	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clear	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clear	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clear	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 clear	cop
36	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swam	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	40 rock	case
38	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rock	amod
39	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rock	amod
40	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clear	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	I		the outermost rim of the great world but the sea and the sky and the salmon		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rim=Trajectory
2	is a	past	nothing	the sea and the sky			tree rules
3	is	past	the wind			silent property	tree rules
4	is	past	the water			as clean grey rock; clear property	tree rules

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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