Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10

“Every beast pursued me in the waters and along the banks; the barking, black-skinned otter came after me in lust and gust and swirl; the wild cat fished for me; the hawk and the steep-winged, spear-beaked birds dived down on me, and men crept on me with nets the width of a river, so that I got no rest.

Who acts: beast, barking, men, I · What happens: pursue, come, fish, wing, beak, dive down · To what, where: me, waters, lust, wild cat, winged beaked birds, rest

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 (beast, barking, men, I), 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	_	4 pursued	punct
2	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	nsubj
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pursued	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 waters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waters	det
8	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pursued	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 banks	cc
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 banks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waters	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barking	det
15	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 barking	punct
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skinned	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 black	punct
19	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 otter	amod
20	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pursued	conj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 lust	case
25	lust	lust	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gust	cc
27	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lust	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swirl	cc
29	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lust	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 cat	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cat	amod
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	parataxis
34	fished	fish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cat	acl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fished	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 hawk	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hawk	det
39	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cat	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 birds	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 birds	det
42	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 winged	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 steep	punct
44	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 birds	amod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 birds	punct
46	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 beaked	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 spear	punct
48	beaked	beak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 birds	amod
49	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hawk	nmod
50	dived	dive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 birds	acl
51	down	down	ADP	_	50 dived	compound:prt
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 me	case
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 dived	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 crept	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 crept	cc
56	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 crept	nsubj
57	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 birds	parataxis
58	on	on	ADP	_	59 me	case
59	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 crept	obl
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 nets	case
61	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 crept	obl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 width	det
63	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 nets	conj
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 river	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 river	det
66	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 width	nmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 got	punct
68	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	71 got	mark
69	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 so	fixed
70	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 got	nsubj
71	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 crept	conj
72	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	73 rest	det
73	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 got	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pursue in a quote	past	every beast	me	the waters and the banks			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	come in a quote	past	the barking		lust and gust and swirl	after me		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lust=Location
3	fish in a quote	participle		the wild cat and the hawk the winged beaked birds not said here			for me	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme
4	wing in a quote	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	beak in a quote	participle						tree rules
6	dive down in a quote	participle		the winged beaked birds not said here			on me	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location
7	creep in a quote	past	men				on me; with nets and the width of a river	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Trajectory
8	get in a quote	past	I	no rest				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus

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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