Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17
“Then I grew old, and in my Ulster cave close to the sea I dreamed my dream, and in it I became a salmon.
Who acts: excellent wisdom, my · What happens: grow, dream, become · To what, where: dream, Ulster cave, salmon
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 (excellent wisdom, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 grew | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreamed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dreamed | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | compound |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dreamed | obl |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cave | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 dreamed | nsubj |
| 17 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dream | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dreamed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 became | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 became | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 salmon | det |
| 27 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | then | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dream in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | my dream | my Ulster cave | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | |||
| 3 | become in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | a salmon | dream | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Result | |||
| 4 | dream in a quote | my | nom dream «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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