Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 3
In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself.
Who acts: mind · What happens: cease, be · To what, where: gigantic blackness, mind
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 blackness | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 blackness | det |
| 3 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blackness | amod |
| 4 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cease | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quietude | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 quietude | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 quietude | det |
| 8 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quietude | amod |
| 9 | quietude | quietude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blackness | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vacancy | cc |
| 11 | vacancy | vacancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quietude | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blackness | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mind | det |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cease | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cease | aux |
| 16 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 personal | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 personal | cop |
| 19 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cease | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 itself | case |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 personal | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | could | the mind | that gigantic blackness | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the mind not said here | mind | personal property | 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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