Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 8
“Because a poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”
Who acts: revelation, brink · What happens: be, run, reveal · To what, where: revelation, poetry, mind
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 (revelation, brink), 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 | _ | 7 revelation | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 poem | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 poem | det |
| 4 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 revelation | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 revelation | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 revelation | det |
| 7 | revelation | revelation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brink | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brink | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brink | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brink | cop |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 brink | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brink | det |
| 14 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 revelation | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brink | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 revealed | mark |
| 19 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 revealed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 revealed | aux:pass |
| 21 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 brink | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mind | det |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 revealed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 revelation | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 revelation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a revelation | because a poem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | revelation | by the brink; of running water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | reveal in a quote | present · passive | the brink not said here | poetry | the mind | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to mind=Recipient |
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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