Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 6

A long stretch of the silent night had gone by, minute following minute in a slow sequence, wherein as there was no change there was no time; wherein there was no past and no future, but a stupefying, endless present which is almost the annihilation of consciousness.

Who acts: long stretch, past, stupefying endless present · What happens: go, follow, be, stupefy · To what, where: slow sequence, change, annihilation

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 (long stretch, past, stupefying endless present), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stretch	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stretch	amod
3	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretch	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 minute	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 by	punct
12	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
13	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 minute	amod
14	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 minute	nmod:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 sequence	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sequence	det
17	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sequence	amod
18	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 change	punct
20	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	25 change	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 change	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 change	det
25	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sequence	nmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 change	acl:relcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
31	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	33 was	advmod
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	parataxis
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 past	det
35	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 future	cc
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 future	det
38	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 past	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 present	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 present	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 present	det
42	stupefying	stupefy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 present	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stupefying	punct
44	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 present	amod
45	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	parataxis
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 annihilation	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 annihilation	cop
48	almost	almost	ADV	_	50 annihilation	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 annihilation	det
50	annihilation	annihilation	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 present	acl:relcl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 consciousness	case
52	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 annihilation	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	a long stretch of the silent night		a slow sequence	minute		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sequence=Location
2	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		no change			wherein property	tree rules
4	be	past	no past and no future		there		wherein property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stupefy	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	a stupefying endless present	the annihilation			of consciousness; almost 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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