Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 24

For a great wind strode the world lashing its league-long whips in cracks of thunder, and singing to itself, now in a world-wide yell, now in an ear-dizzying hum and buzz; or with a long snarl and whine it hovered over the world searching for life to destroy.

Who acts: world · What happens: stride, lash, sing, dizzy, whine, hover · To what, where: world, long whips, cracks, world wide yell

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 wind	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wind	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wind	amod
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strode	obl
5	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strode	obj
8	lashing	lash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 strode	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 whips	nmod:poss
10	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 league	punct
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whips	amod
13	whips	whip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lashing	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 cracks	case
15	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lashing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 thunder	case
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cracks	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 singing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 singing	cc
20	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 strode	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 itself	case
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 singing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yell	punct
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 yell	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 yell	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 yell	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 yell	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 world	punct
29	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 yell	amod
30	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 singing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hum	punct
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 hum	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 hum	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hum	det
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dizzying	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ear	punct
37	dizzying	dizzy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 hum	amod
38	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 yell	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 buzz	cc
40	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hum	conj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 snarl	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 snarl	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 snarl	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 snarl	det
45	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 snarl	amod
46	snarl	snarl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strode	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 whine	cc
48	whine	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 snarl	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 hovered	nsubj
50	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 whine	ccomp
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 world	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 world	det
53	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hovered	obl
54	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 hovered	advcl
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 life	case
56	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 searching	obl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 destroy	mark
58	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 searching	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stride	past		the world			for a great wind	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory
2	lash	gerund		world's long whips		cracks of thunder		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient
3	sing speech: express	gerund			world	a world wide yell and a dizzying hum and buzz		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yell=Location
4	dizzy	gerund						tree rules
5	whine	present						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hover	past	world			the world		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location
7	search	gerund	world not said here				for life	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for life=Theme
8	destroy	to-infinitive	world not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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