Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15
With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plume, powerful as a storm, untiring as the sea.
Who acts: I · What happens: bound, untir · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 delight | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 delight | det |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounded | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bounded | nsubj |
| 5 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bounded | punct |
| 7 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bounded | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bounded | punct |
| 9 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bounded | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounded | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 plume | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plume | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 16 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 powerful | punct |
| 18 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plume | amod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 storm | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 storm | det |
| 21 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 powerful | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 untiring | punct |
| 23 | untiring | untir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bounded | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 untiring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | I | light | with what delight; as a bird's plume | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bound | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bound | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | untir | gerund | I not said here | as the sea | 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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