--- title: “Every beast pursued me in the waters and along the banks; the barki… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Every beast pursued me in the waters and along the banks; the barking, black-skinned otter came after me in lust and gust and swirl; the wild cat fished for me; the hawk and the steep-winged, spear-beaked birds dived down on me, and men crept on me with nets the width of a river, so that I got no r --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/) / 10 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10 “Every beast pursued me in the waters and along the banks; the barking, black-skinned otter came after me in lust and gust and swirl; the wild cat fished for me; the hawk and the steep-winged, spear-beaked birds dived down on me, and men crept on me with nets the width of a river, so that I got no rest. **Who acts:** beast, barking, men, I · **What happens:** pursue, come, fish, wing, beak, dive down · **To what, where:** me, waters, lust, wild cat, winged beaked birds, rest This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, barking, men, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:11:10 # text = “Every beast pursued me in the waters and along the banks; the barking, black-skinned otter came after me in lust and gust and swirl; the wild cat fished for me; the hawk and the steep-winged, spear-beaked birds dived down on me, and men crept on me with nets the width of a river, so that I got no rest. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 barking barking NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 skinned skinned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 lust lust NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gust gust NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 swirl swirl NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 34 fished fish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 42 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 beaked beak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ _ 49 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 50 dived dive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 acl _ _ 51 down down ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 57 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 parataxis _ _ 58 on on ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 obl _ _ 60 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 68 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 71 mark _ _ 69 that that SCONJ IN _ 68 fixed _ _ 70 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 71 nsubj _ _ 71 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 72 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 73 det _ _ 73 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pursue** *in a quote* | past | every beast | me | | the waters and the banks | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the barking | | | lust and gust and swirl | after me | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lust=Location | | 3 | **fish** *in a quote* | participle | | the wild cat and the hawk the winged beaked birds *not said here* | | | | for me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme | | 4 | **wing** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **beak** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dive down** *in a quote* | participle | | the winged beaked birds *not said here* | | | | on me | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location | | 7 | **creep** *in a quote* | past | men | | | | | on me; with nets and the width of a river | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Trajectory | | 8 | **get** *in a quote* | past | I | no rest | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/)