Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 4

The sky was over him; the earth under him; and than these there was nothing, or there was but the darkness and the wind.

Who acts: sky · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky), 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 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 him	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 earth	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 him	conj
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 earth	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nothing	cc
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 was	nsubj
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	cop
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 him	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	acl:relcl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 darkness	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 darkness	det
24	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wind	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 him	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sky					over silence	tree rules
2	is a	past		nothing					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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