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title: In these latitudes I moved through a world of amber, myself amber an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In these latitudes I moved through a world of amber, myself amber and gold; in those others, in a sparkle of lucent blue, I curved, lit like a living jewel: and in these again, through dusks of ebony all mazed with silver, I shot and shone, the wonder of the sea. Who acts: I, myself. A sentence of «
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 3

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In these latitudes I moved through a world of amber, myself amber and gold; in those others, in a sparkle of lucent blue, I curved, lit like a living jewel: and in these again, through dusks of ebony all mazed with silver, I shot and shone, the wonder of the sea.

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**Who acts:** I, myself · **What happens:** move, amber, curve, lit, maze, shoot · **To what, where:** latitudes, sparkle, these, wonder, sea

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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 (I, myself), 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:pg2892:10:3
# text = In these latitudes I moved through a world of amber, myself amber and gold; in those others, in a sparkle of lucent blue, I curved, lit like a living jewel: and in these again, through dusks of ebony all mazed with silver, I shot and shone, the wonder of the sea.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	latitudes	latitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
13	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	lucent	lucent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	curved	curve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	dusks	dusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	nmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	mazed	maze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | I |  |  | this latitudes |  | through a world of amber; in that others in a sparkle of lucent blue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in latitude=Source through world=Trajectory in other=Destination |
| 2 | **amber** |  | myself |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curve** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lit** | participle |  | a sparkle of lucent blue *not said here* |  |  |  | like a living jewel | tree rules |
| 5 | **maze** | participle · passive |  | these |  |  |  | with silver | tree rules |
| 6 | **shoot** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shine** | past | I *not said here* | the wonder of the sea |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme |
| 8 | **wonder** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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