Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 31
In a moment the heavens rang to the clash of swords on bucklers.
Who acts: heavens, swords · What happens: ring, clash
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, swords), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rang | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heavens | det |
| 5 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rang | nsubj |
| 6 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 clash | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clash | det |
| 9 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rang | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 swords | case |
| 11 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clash | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bucklers | case |
| 13 | bucklers | buckler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swords | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | the heavens | moment | to the clash of swords on bucklers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | clash | swords on bucklers | nom clash «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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