Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4
He stepped into a coracle and pushed out to the deep, and he permitted the coracle to go as the winds and the waves directed it.
Who acts: duty, waves · What happens: step, push out, permit, go, direct · To what, where: coracle, deep
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 (duty, waves), 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 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 coracle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coracle | det |
| 5 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pushed | cc |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stepped | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pushed | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 deep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deep | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 permitted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 permitted | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 permitted | nsubj |
| 15 | permitted | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coracle | det |
| 17 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 permitted | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permitted | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 winds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 winds | det |
| 22 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 directed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waves | det |
| 25 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 directed | nsubj |
| 26 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 permitted | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 directed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | duty | a coracle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | push out | participle | duty not said here | the deep | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to deep=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | permit | past | duty | the coracle | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coracle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | duty not said here | as the winds | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | direct | past | the waves | coracle | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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