Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 82

"I come from the outmost stream of earth, From the glens where the white swans glide, A night in Islay, a night in Man, A night on the cold hillside."

Who acts: lank grey beggarman, white swans · What happens: come, glide · To what, where: outmost stream

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lank grey beggarman, white swans), 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	_	3 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
6	outmost	outmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stream	amod
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 earth	case
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stream	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glens	punct
11	From	from	ADP	_	13 glens	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glens	det
13	glens	glen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 glide	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swans	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swans	amod
17	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 glide	nsubj
18	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 glens	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 night	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glens	appos
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Islay	case
23	Islay	Islay	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 night	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 night	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 night	det
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Islay	appos
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Man	case
28	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 night	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 night	punct
30	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Man	appos
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 hillside	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hillside	det
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hillside	amod
35	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 night	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	the lank grey beggarman = beggarman			the outmost stream of earth		from the glens	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stream=Initial_Location from glen=Destination
2	glide in a quote	present	the white swans						vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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