Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 9

Porpoises went snorting past in bands and clans.

Who acts: Porpoises · What happens: go, snort

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 (Porpoises), 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	Porpoises	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snorting	snort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp
4	past	past	ADV	_	3 snorting	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bands	case
6	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snorting	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clans	cc
8	clans	clan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bands	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Porpoises						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	snort	gerund	Porpoises not said here					in bands and clans; past property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in band=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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