Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 8

Long I hung over that combat, seeing every spear that hurtled, every stone that whizzed from a sling, every sword that flashed up and down, and the endless glittering of the shields.

Who acts: I, spear, stone, sword · What happens: hang, see, hurtle, whiz, flash up · To what, where: stone, combat, spear, sling

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 (I, spear, stone, sword), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 hung	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 combat	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 combat	det
6	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hung	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 spear	det
10	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hurtled	nsubj
12	hurtled	hurtle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spear	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stone	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 whizzed	nsubj
17	whizzed	whiz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stone	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sling	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sling	det
20	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whizzed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sword	punct
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sword	det
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sling	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flashed	nsubj
25	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sword	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 flashed	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 down	cc
28	down	down	ADV	_	26 up	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 glittering	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 glittering	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 glittering	det
32	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 glittering	amod
33	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 shields	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shields	det
36	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 glittering	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	I	every stone	that combat	the endless glittering of the shields obl; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over combat=Location
2	see	gerund	I not said here	every spear			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus
3	hurtle	past	every spear				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	whiz	past	every stone		a sling and every sword		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sling=Trajectory
5	flash up	past	every sword				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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