Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 37

But in his thousand thoughts he yet remembered the Salmon of Knowledge as eagerly as his master did.

Who acts: poet, master · What happens: remember, do, think · To what, where: Salmon, thousand thoughts

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 (poet, master), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 remembered	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 thoughts	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thoughts	nmod:poss
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thoughts	nummod
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 remembered	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remembered	nsubj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 remembered	advmod
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Salmon	det
10	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Knowledge	case
12	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Salmon	nmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 eagerly	advmod
14	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	8 remembered	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 did	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eagerly	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	poet	the Salmon of Knowledge	poet's thousand thoughts	yet	eagerly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
2	do	past	poet's master					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think		poet					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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