Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1

He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he had parted from those seas and was adrift on vaster and more turbulent billows.

Who acts: He · What happens: go, find, part, be · To what, where: light bark, vaster billows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 bark	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bark	nmod:poss
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bark	amod
7	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 parted	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 parted	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 parted	aux
17	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 found	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 seas	case
19	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 seas	det
20	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 parted	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 adrift	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 adrift	cop
23	adrift	adrift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parted	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	29 billows	case
25	vaster	vast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 billows	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turbulent	cc
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 turbulent	advmod
28	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vaster	conj
29	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 adrift	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He	his light bark		forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bark=Location
2	find	past	He not said here		moment		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	part	past · perfect	he			from that seas	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient
4	is	past	he not said here	vaster billows		adrift property	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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