Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 48

The waves of all the world seemed to whirl past them in one huge, green cataract.

Who acts: waves · What happens: seem, whirl, wave · To what, where: one huge green cataract, world

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 (waves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seemed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 world	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 world	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waves	nmod
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 whirl	mark
9	whirl	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
10	past	past	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whirl	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 cataract	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cataract	nummod
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cataract	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 huge	punct
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cataract	amod
17	cataract	cataract	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whirl	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the waves of all world				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	whirl	to-infinitive	the waves of all world not said here		one huge green cataract	past waves = wave	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Source in cataract=Trajectory
3	wave			all world			nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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