Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 3

He motioned towards one of the great vats, and wine was brought to him, of which he drank so joyously and so deeply that all people wondered at his thirst, his capacity, and his jovial spirits.

Who acts: Mongan, people · What happens: motion, bring, drink, wonder, thirst · To what, where: jovial spirits, wine, Mongan, thirst

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 motioned	nsubj
2	motioned	motion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 motioned	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 vats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vats	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vats	amod
8	vats	vat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux:pass
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 motioned	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drank	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drank	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drank	nsubj
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 joyously	advmod
22	joyously	joyously	ADV	_	20 drank	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deeply	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 deeply	advmod
25	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	22 joyously	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wondered	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wondered	nsubj
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drank	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 thirst	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 thirst	nmod:poss
32	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wondered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 capacity	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 capacity	nmod:poss
35	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thirst	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spirits	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spirits	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 spirits	nmod:poss
39	jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 spirits	amod
40	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 motioned	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 motioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	motion	past	Mongan	Mongan's jovial spirits			towards one of the great vats	tree rules
2	bring	past · passive		wine	Mongan			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
3	drink	past	Mongan				joyously property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source
4	wonder speech: ask	past	all people			Mongan's thirst and Mongan's capacity		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	thirst		Mongan					nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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