Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21

He turned then and saw the island, fragrant with apple trees, sweet with wells of wine; and, hearkening towards the shore, his ears, dulled yet with the unending rhythms of the sea, distinguished and were filled with song; for the isle was, as it were, a nest of birds, and they sang joyously, sweetly, triumphantly.

Who acts: sun, heart, islands · What happens: turn, see, hearken, dull, fill, be · To what, where: island, nest

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, heart, islands), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 turned	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fragrant	punct
9	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 island	amod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	compound
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fragrant	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sweet	punct
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 wells	case
16	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sweet	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wine	case
18	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wells	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hearkening	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hearkening	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hearkening	punct
22	hearkening	hearken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turned	advcl
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shore	det
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hearkening	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ears	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ears	nmod:poss
28	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shore	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dulled	punct
30	dulled	dull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hearkening	parataxis
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 dulled	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 rhythms	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rhythms	det
34	unending	unending	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rhythms	amod
35	rhythms	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dulled	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 sea	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sea	det
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rhythms	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 distinguished	punct
40	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dulled	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 filled	cc
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 filled	aux:pass
43	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 distinguished	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 song	case
45	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 filled	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 was	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 isle	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 isle	det
49	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 was	obl
50	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 nest	punct
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 nest	mark
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 nest	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 nest	cop
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 nest	punct
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 nest	det
57	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 was	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 birds	case
59	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 nest	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sang	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 sang	cc
62	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 sang	nsubj
63	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
64	joyously	joyously	ADV	_	63 sang	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sweetly	punct
66	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	63 sang	advmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 triumphantly	punct
68	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	66 sweetly	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	sun		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	sun not said here	the island			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus
3	hearken	gerund	sun not said here			towards the shore and sun's ears	tree rules
4	dull	participle			yet	with the unending rhythms of the sea	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rhythm=Instrument
5	fill	past · passive				with song	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with song=Instrument
6	be	past				for the isle	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	heart	a nest		of birds	tree rules
8	sing speech: express	past	islands = island			joyously, sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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