Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17

For a great wish had come upon him to walk beside the sea; to listen to the roll and boom of long, grey breakers; to gaze on an unfruitful, desolate wilderness of waters; and to forget in those sights all that he could forget, and if he could not forget then to remember all that he should remember.

Who acts: Ireland · What happens: come, walk, listen, gaze, desolate, forget · To what, where: sea, wilderness, sights, all, long grey breakers

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ireland), 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 wish	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wish	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wish	amod
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 walk	mark
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listen	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 listen	mark
16	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 come	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 roll	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roll	det
19	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 listen	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 boom	cc
21	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roll	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 breakers	case
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 breakers	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
25	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 breakers	amod
26	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 boom	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 gaze	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 gaze	mark
29	gaze	gaze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 listen	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 unfruitful	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 unfruitful	det
32	unfruitful	unfruitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gaze	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 desolate	punct
34	desolate	desolate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 gaze	conj
35	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 desolate	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 waters	case
37	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 wilderness	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 forget	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 forget	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 forget	mark
41	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 come	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 sights	case
43	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 sights	det
44	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 forget	obl
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 forget	det:predet
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 forget	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 forget	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 forget	aux
49	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 forget	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 forget	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 forget	cc
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 forget	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 forget	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 forget	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 forget	advmod
56	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 forget	conj
57	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 remember	advmod
58	to	to	PART	_	59 remember	mark
59	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 forget	xcomp
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 remember	obj
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 remember	mark
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 remember	nsubj
63	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 remember	aux
64	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 all	advcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect					for a great wish; upon Ireland	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	walk	to-infinitive			the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sea=Trajectory
3	listen	to-infinitive					to the roll and boom of long grey breakers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to roll=Theme
4	gaze	to-infinitive					on a unfruitful	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on unfruitful=Theme
5	desolate	infinitive		wilderness of waters				tree rules
6	forget	to-infinitive			that sights			tree rules
7	forget	could	Ireland					tree rules
8	not forget a condition, not said to happen	could	Ireland					tree rules
9	remember	to-infinitive	Ireland not said here	all		then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent all=Theme
10	remember	should	Ireland					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
11	boom			long grey breakers				nom boom «event 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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