Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 19

Following the water we came to a glade where the sun shone and where the earth was warmed, and there Partholon rested with his twenty-four couples, and made a city and a livelihood.

Who acts: Following water, sun, Partholon · What happens: follow, come, shine, warm, rest, make · To what, where: glade, earth, city

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Following water, sun, Partholon), 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	Following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	amod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 glade	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glade	det
8	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 shone	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shone	nsubj
12	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 glade	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 warmed	cc
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 warmed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warmed	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 warmed	aux:pass
18	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shone	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rested	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rested	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 rested	expl
22	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 rested	nsubj
23	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 couples	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 couples	nmod:poss
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 four	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 twenty	punct
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 couples	nummod
29	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rested	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 city	det
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 livelihood	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 livelihood	det
37	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 city	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the Following water		a glade		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glade=Initial_Location
3	shine	past	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	warm	past · passive		the earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	rest	past	Partholon		there	with water's four couples	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	the Following water not said here	a city and a livelihood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/19/