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title: I turned, and through days and nights I swam tirelessly, jubilantly;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I turned, and through days and nights I swam tirelessly, jubilantly; with terror wakening in me, too, and a whisper through my being that I must reach Ireland or die. Who acts: I, terror. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9

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I turned, and through days and nights I swam tirelessly, jubilantly; with terror wakening in me, too, and a whisper through my being that I must reach Ireland or die.

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**Who acts:** I, terror · **What happens:** turn, swim, waken, be, die

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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, terror), 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:pg2892:10:9
# text = I turned, and through days and nights I swam tirelessly, jubilantly; with terror wakening in me, too, and a whisper through my being that I must reach Ireland or die.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	tirelessly	tirelessly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	jubilantly	jubilantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	wakening	waken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
33	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | past | I |  |  |  | day | jubilantly, tirelessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **waken** | gerund | terror and a whisper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in me | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | must · gerund | I |  |  |  |  | reach *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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