Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 26

For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields stretching beyond them, there was now no road, no hedge, no field; but there was a great broad river sweeping across their path; a mighty tumble of yellowy-brown waters, very swift, very savage; churning and billowing and jockeying among rough boulders and islands of stone.

Who acts: road, fields, great broad river, brown waters · What happens: be, stretch, sweep, churn, billow, jockey · To what, where: great broad river, path

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, fields, great broad river, brown waters), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 been	mark
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 been	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 been	expl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
5	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 was	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 hedges	case
9	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 road	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hedges	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fields	cc
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hedges	conj
15	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fields	acl
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stretching	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 been	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 river	cop
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 road	advmod
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 road	det
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hedge	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 hedge	det
26	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 road	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 field	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 field	det
29	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hedge	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 was	cc
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 river	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 river	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
36	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
38	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 river	acl
39	across	across	ADP	_	41 path	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 path	nmod:poss
41	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sweeping	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 tumble	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 tumble	det
44	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tumble	amod
45	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 river	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	50 waters	case
47	yellowy	yellowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 brown	amod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 yellowy	punct
49	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 waters	amod
50	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tumble	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 swift	punct
52	very	very	ADV	_	53 swift	advmod
53	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tumble	parataxis
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 savage	punct
55	very	very	ADV	_	56 savage	advmod
56	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 swift	conj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 churning	punct
58	churning	churn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 tumble	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 billowing	cc
60	billowing	billow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 churning	conj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 jockeying	cc
62	jockeying	jockey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 churning	conj
63	among	among	ADP	_	65 boulders	case
64	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 boulders	amod
65	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 jockeying	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 islands	cc
67	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 boulders	conj
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 stone	case
69	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 islands	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 river	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past · perfect	a road with hedges on each side and fields		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	gerund	fields not said here			beyond men = man	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past		a great broad river and a mighty tumble of brown waters			tree rules
4	sweep	gerund	a great broad river and a mighty tumble of brown waters not said here		men's path		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory
5	churn	gerund					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	billow	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	jockey	gerund				among rough boulders and islands of stone	tree rules
8	tumble		brown waters				nom tumble «act intransitive»: of=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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