--- title: “Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night and a morning, the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night and a morning, there came a sickness that bloated the stomach and purpled the skin, and on the seventh day all of the race of Partholon were dead, save one man only.” Who acts: sickness, all, Partholon. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Step --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/30/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/) / 30 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30 “Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night and a morning, there came a sickness that bloated the stomach and purpled the skin, and on the seventh day all of the race of Partholon were dead, save one man only.” **Who acts:** sickness, all, Partholon · **What happens:** rise, come, bloat, purple, be, save · **To what, where:** stomach, skin, one man This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sickness, all, Partholon), 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:pg2892:5:30 # text = “Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night and a morning, there came a sickness that bloated the stomach and purpled the skin, and on the seventh day all of the race of Partholon were dead, save one man only.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 amod _ _ 8 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 bloated bloat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 purpled purple VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Partholon Partholon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 45 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | a sickness | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bloat** *in a quote* | past | a sickness | the stomach | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **purple** *in a quote* | past | a sickness *not said here* | the skin | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | all | | | | day | dead *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | | one man | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 7 | **race** *in a quote* | | Partholon | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/31/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/)