Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1

“Delight and strength came to me again, and now I explored all the inland ways, the great lakes of Ireland, and her swift brown rivers.

Who acts: Delight, I, swift · What happens: come, explore, river · To what, where: me, inland ways

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Delight, I, swift), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
2	Delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 strength	cc
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Delight	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explored	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 explored	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 explored	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 explored	nsubj
13	explored	explore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 ways	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ways	det
16	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ways	amod
17	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 explored	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lakes	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lakes	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lakes	amod
21	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ways	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Ireland	case
23	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lakes	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rivers	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rivers	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 swift	nmod:poss
27	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rivers	nsubj
28	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rivers	amod
29	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 explored	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Delight and strength		me	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	explore in a quote	past	I	all inland ways		now	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent way=Location
3	river in a quote		Ireland's swift				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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