Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 30

For Nemed and four couples had been saved from that fierce storm, and I saw them increase and multiply until four thousand couples lived and laughed and were riotous in the sun, for the people of Nemed had small minds but great activity.

Who acts: I, couples, thousand couples, people · What happens: save, see, increase, multiply, live, laugh · To what, where: fierce storm, couples, sun, small minds

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, couples, thousand couples, people), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 Nemed	case
2	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 couples	cc
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 couples	nummod
5	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Nemed	conj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saved	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saved	aux:pass
8	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 storm	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 storm	det
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 storm	amod
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saved	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saw	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 multiply	cc
20	multiply	multiply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 increase	conj
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 lived	mark
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 thousand	compound
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 couples	nummod
24	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 multiply	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laughed	cc
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 riotous	cc
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 riotous	cop
30	riotous	riotous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 laughed	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 sun	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 riotous	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 people	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 people	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Nemed	case
39	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 people	nmod
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 laughed	ccomp
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 minds	amod
42	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obj
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 activity	cc
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 activity	amod
45	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 minds	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	save	past · perfect · passive			that fierce storm	for Nemed and four couples	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: for nemed=Asset from storm=Source
2	see	past	I	couples = couple			tree rules
3	increase	infinitive	couples = couple not said here				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	multiply	infinitive	couples = couple not said here				vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	live	past	thousand couples				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	past	thousand couples not said here				tree rules
7	is	past	thousand couples not said here		the sun	riotous property	tree rules
8	have	past	the people of Nemed	small minds but great activity			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient

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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