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title: A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weari… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weariness creeping through my every fibre and muscle. Who acts: sickness, languor. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 12

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A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weariness creeping through my every fibre and muscle.

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**Who acts:** sickness, languor · **What happens:** rack, creep · **To what, where:** languor, fibre

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sickness, languor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:10:12
# text = A sickness was racking in every one of my bones, a languor and weariness creeping through my every fibre and muscle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	racking	rack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	languor	languor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rack** | past · progressive | a sickness | a languor and weariness |  |  |  | in every one of my bones | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | a languor and weariness *not said here* |  |  | my fibre and muscle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fibre=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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