Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5
In such a way he voyaged among the small islands of the sea until he lost all knowledge of his course and was adrift far out in ocean.
Who acts: duty · What happens: voyage, lose, be · To what, where: way, knowledge
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), 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 | _ | 4 way | case |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 way | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voyaged | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 voyaged | nsubj |
| 6 | voyaged | voyage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 islands | amod |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voyaged | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 islands | nmod |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 voyaged | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 knowledge | det |
| 18 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 course | nmod:poss |
| 21 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knowledge | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 adrift | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 adrift | cop |
| 24 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lost | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 out | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 adrift | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 ocean | case |
| 28 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 out | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 voyaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voyage | past | duty | such way | among the small islands of the sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | duty | all knowledge of duty's course | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | duty not said here | adrift, out property | tree rules |
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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