Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 50
Nothing was for that moment but a vast roar and pour of waters.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 roar | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roar | det |
| 8 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roar | amod |
| 9 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pour | cc |
| 11 | pour | pour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roar | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 waters | case |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pour | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nothing | for that moment but a vast roar and pour of waters | 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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