Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16
Sailing thus, lost in a succession of days and nights, of winds and calms, he came at last to an island.
Who acts: sun · What happens: sail, lose, come · To what, where: succession
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | Sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Sailing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sailing | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 succession | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 succession | det |
| 7 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 succession | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nights | cc |
| 11 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 days | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 winds | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 winds | case |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 calms | cc |
| 16 | calms | calm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 winds | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sailing | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 came | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 last | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | gerund | sun not said here | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | sun not said here | a succession of days and nights | of winds and calms | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in succession=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | come | past | sun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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