Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 49
The sound of all these oceans boomed in their ears for one eternal instant.
What happens: boom · To what, where: oceans, ears
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: 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 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oceans | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 oceans | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 oceans | det |
| 6 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sound | nmod |
| 7 | boomed | boom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 oceans | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ears | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boomed | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 instant | nummod |
| 13 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 instant | amod |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boomed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boom | participle | all oceans not said here | waves's ears | for one eternal instant | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=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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