Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

As they went among these quiet giants into the dappled obscurity and silence, their thoughts became grave, and all the motions of their minds elevated as though they must equal in greatness and dignity those ancient and glorious trees.

Who acts: trees, thoughts, motions, minds · What happens: go, become, elevate, equal, think, motion · To what, where: dappled obscurity, ancient trees, greatness

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, thoughts, motions, minds), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 became	advcl
4	among	among	ADP	_	7 giants	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 giants	det
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giants	amod
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 obscurity	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 obscurity	det
10	dappled	dappled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 obscurity	amod
11	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 silence	cc
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obscurity	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 thoughts	nmod:poss
16	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 elevated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 elevated	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 motions	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 motions	det
23	motions	motion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 elevated	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 minds	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 minds	nmod:poss
26	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 motions	nmod
27	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 became	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 equal	mark
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 equal	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 equal	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 equal	aux
32	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 elevated	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 greatness	case
34	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 equal	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dignity	cc
36	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 greatness	conj
37	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 trees	det
38	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 trees	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 glorious	cc
40	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ancient	conj
41	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 equal	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	trees = tree		the dappled obscurity and silence	among this quiet giants	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into obscurity=Initial_Location
2	become	past	trees's thoughts			grave property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	elevate	participle	all motions of trees's minds				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	equal	must	trees = tree	that ancient trees	greatness and dignity		tree rules
5	think		trees = tree				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
6	motion		trees's minds				nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent
7	mind		trees = tree				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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