Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 28

The wind too: he would have listened to its thousand voices as it moved in all seasons and in all moods.

Who acts: existence, wind · What happens: listen, move · To what, where: wind

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (existence, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 wind	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 listened	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 listened	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 listened	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 listened	aux
8	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wind	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 voices	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voices	nmod:poss
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 voices	nummod
12	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listened	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 moved	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 moved	nsubj
15	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 listened	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 seasons	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 seasons	det
18	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moved	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moods	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 moods	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 moods	det
22	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seasons	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	would · perfect	existence	the wind not said here				to wind's thousand voices	tree rules
2	move	past	wind				season		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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