Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 2

At a certain time he passed from the rough green ridges of the sea to enchanted waters, and he roamed from island to island asking all people how he might come to Delvcaem, the daughter of Morgan.

Who acts: Colpa · What happens: pass, enchant, roam, ask, come · To what, where: rough green ridges, island, people, Delvcaem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colpa), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 ridges	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ridges	det
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ridges	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ridges	amod
11	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ridges	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 waters	case
16	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 waters	amod
17	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 roamed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roamed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 roamed	nsubj
21	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 island	case
23	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roamed	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 island	case
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 island	nmod
26	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 roamed	advcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 asking	obj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 come	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asking	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Delvcaem	case
34	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 daughter	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 daughter	det
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Delvcaem	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Morgan	case
39	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Colpa		the rough green ridges of the sea	time	to enchanted waters	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ridge=Initial_Location to water=Destination
2	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	roam	past	Colpa		island to island			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from island=Trajectory
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	Colpa not said here	all people				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come	might	Colpa		Delvcaem			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to delvcaem=Initial_Location

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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