Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 51

Thence they swung into a silence equally vast, and so sudden that it was as thunderous in the comparison as was the elemental rage they quitted.

Who acts: waves, silence · What happens: swing, be, quitt · To what, where: silence, comparison, elemental rage

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, silence), 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	Thence	thence	ADV	_	3 swung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swung	nsubj
3	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 silence	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 silence	det
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swung	obl
7	equally	equally	ADV	_	8 vast	advmod
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silence	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sudden	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sudden	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 sudden	advmod
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swung	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 thunderous	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thunderous	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thunderous	cop
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 thunderous	case
17	thunderous	thunderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sudden	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 comparison	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 comparison	det
20	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thunderous	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	25 rage	case
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rage	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rage	det
24	elemental	elemental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rage	amod
25	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comparison	nmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 quitted	nsubj
27	quitted	quitt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rage	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing	past	waves = wave		a silence	thence property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into silence=Trajectory
2	is	past	silence		the comparison	thunderous property	tree rules
3	is	past				as the elemental rage	tree rules
4	quitt	past	waves = wave	the elemental rage not said here			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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