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title: At times a wave leaped howling under a ship, and with a buffet dashe… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 19

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At times a wave leaped howling under a ship, and with a buffet dashed it into air, and chased it upwards with thunder stroke on stroke, and followed again, close as a chasing wolf, trying with hammering on hammering to beat in the wide-wombed bottom and suck out the frightened lives through one black gape.

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**Who acts:** frightened · **What happens:** leap, howl, dash, chase, follow, try · **To what, where:** wave, ship, buffet, air, wombed bottom, one black gape

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frightened), 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:pg2892:6:19
# text = At times a wave leaped howling under a ship, and with a buffet dashed it into air, and chased it upwards with thunder stroke on stroke, and followed again, close as a chasing wolf, trying with hammering on hammering to beat in the wide-wombed bottom and suck out the frightened lives through one black gape.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	buffet	buffet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	chasing	chasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hammering	hammering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
49	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	wombed	womb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
55	out	out	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	nsubj	_	_
58	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	parataxis	_	_
59	through	through	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	nummod	_	_
61	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	gape	gape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle · passive |  | a wave |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **howl** | gerund |  |  |  | a ship |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ship=Location |
| 3 | **dash** | past |  | buffet |  |  |  | into air *result*; with a buffet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with buffet=Instrument into air=Result |
| 4 | **chase** | past |  | buffet |  |  |  | with thunder stroke on stroke; upwards *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with hammering | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hammer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **beat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the wombed bottom |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottom=Location |
| 9 | **womb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **suck out** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **live** | present | the frightened |  |  | one black gape |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gape=Location |

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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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