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title: I knew the secret caves where ocean roars to ocean; the floods that… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I knew the secret caves where ocean roars to ocean; the floods that are icy cold, from which the nose of a salmon leaps back as at a sting; and the warm streams in which we rocked and dozed and were carried forward without motion. Who acts: I, ocean, floods, nose. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» b
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 6

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I knew the secret caves where ocean roars to ocean; the floods that are icy cold, from which the nose of a salmon leaps back as at a sting; and the warm streams in which we rocked and dozed and were carried forward without motion.

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**Who acts:** I, ocean, floods, nose, we · **What happens:** know, roar, be, leap back, rock, doze · **To what, where:** secret caves, ocean, warm streams

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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, ocean, floods, nose), 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:pg2892:10:6
# text = I knew the secret caves where ocean roars to ocean; the floods that are icy cold, from which the nose of a salmon leaps back as at a sting; and the warm streams in which we rocked and dozed and were carried forward without motion.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	dozed	doze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
46	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | I | the secret caves |  |  |  | the warm streams *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus |
| 2 | **roar** | present | ocean |  | ocean |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ocean=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the floods |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leap back** | present | the nose of a salmon |  |  |  |  | as a sting | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory |
| 5 | **rock** | past | we |  |  | the warm streams |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 6 | **doze** | past | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **carry forward** | past · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without motion; forward *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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