Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30

“Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night and a morning, there came a sickness that bloated the stomach and purpled the skin, and on the seventh day all of the race of Partholon were dead, save one man only.”

Who acts: sickness, all, Partholon · What happens: rise, come, bloat, purple, be, save · To what, where: stomach, skin, one man

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 (sickness, all, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 sudden	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sudden	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sudden	punct
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 wind	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
7	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wind	amod
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sudden	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	nummod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wind	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 morning	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wind	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 came	expl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sudden	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sickness	det
20	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bloated	nsubj
22	bloated	bloat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sickness	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stomach	det
24	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bloated	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 purpled	cc
26	purpled	purple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bloated	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 skin	det
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 purpled	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dead	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dead	cc
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dead	obl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 dead	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 race	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 race	det
38	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 all	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Partholon	case
40	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 race	nmod
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	cop
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 save	punct
44	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	parataxis
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 man	nummod
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 save	obj
47	only	only	ADV	_	46 man	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sudden	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sudden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise in a quote	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	a sickness		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bloat in a quote	past	a sickness	the stomach				tree rules
4	purple in a quote	past	a sickness not said here	the skin				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	is in a quote	past	all			day	dead property	tree rules
6	save in a quote	infinitive		one man				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
7	race in a quote		Partholon					nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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