Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9
There is a deep gulf to be gone through,” she said, “a place of silence and terror, full of dumb, venomous monsters.
Who acts: deep gulf, gulf · What happens: be, go through, say · 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 (deep gulf, gulf), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gulf | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gulf | amod |
| 5 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gone | aux:pass |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gulf | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 gone | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 silence | case |
| 19 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 terror | cc |
| 21 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 silence | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 monsters | case |
| 25 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monsters | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dumb | punct |
| 27 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monsters | amod |
| 28 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a deep gulf | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go through | to-infinitive · passive | a deep gulf not said here | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | gulf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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