Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9

I turned, and through days and nights I swam tirelessly, jubilantly; with terror wakening in me, too, and a whisper through my being that I must reach Ireland or die.

Who acts: I, terror · What happens: turn, swim, waken, be, die

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, terror), 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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swam	cc
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swam	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nights	cc
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 days	conj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 swam	nsubj
10	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
11	tirelessly	tirelessly	ADV	_	10 swam	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jubilantly	punct
13	jubilantly	jubilantly	ADV	_	10 swam	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 terror	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 terror	case
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	parataxis
17	wakening	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 terror	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wakening	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 too	punct
21	too	too	ADV	_	17 wakening	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whisper	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 whisper	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 whisper	det
25	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 terror	conj
26	through	through	SCONJ	_	32 reach	mark
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 reach	nmod:poss
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 reach	cop
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 reach	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 reach	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	aux
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	advcl
33	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 reach	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 die	cc
35	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 reach	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	I			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	swim	past	I	day	jubilantly, tirelessly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	waken	gerund	terror and a whisper not said here		in me	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	must · gerund	I		reach property	tree rules
5	die	infinitive	I not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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