Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

As the hunt swept along the sides of the hill there arose a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place high on the slope and, over all that uproar there came the savage baying of Fionn’s own dogs.

Who acts: hunt, savage · What happens: sweep, arise, come, bay, outcry · To what, where: sides, great outcry, savage, uproar, hounds

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunt, savage), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 swept	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunt	det
3	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swept	nsubj
4	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 arose	advcl
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swept	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sides	nmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swept	advmod
12	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 outcry	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 outcry	amod
15	outcry	outcry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arose	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hounds	case
17	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 outcry	nmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hounds	nmod
22	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 slope	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 slope	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 slope	det
25	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uproar	punct
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 uproar	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 uproar	det:predet
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 uproar	det
31	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 came	advmod
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 arose	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 savage	det
35	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obj
36	baying	bay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 savage	acl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 dogs	case
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 dogs	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Fionn	case
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dogs	amod
41	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 baying	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sweep	past	the hunt		the sides of the hill; there		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along side=Trajectory
2	arise	past		a great outcry of hounds from a narrow place on the slope			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location outcry=Theme
3	come	past		the savage	all uproar; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location savage=Theme
4	bay	gerund	the savage not said here			of Fionn's own dogs	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	outcry			hounds from a narrow place on the slope			nom outcry «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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