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title: For a great wind strode the world lashing its league-long whips in c… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For a great wind strode the world lashing its league-long whips in cracks of thunder, and singing to itself, now in a world-wide yell, now in an ear-dizzying hum and buzz; or with a long snarl and whine it hovered over the world searching for life to destroy. Who acts: world. A sentence of «Irish Fa
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 24

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For a great wind strode the world lashing its league-long whips in cracks of thunder, and singing to itself, now in a world-wide yell, now in an ear-dizzying hum and buzz; or with a long snarl and whine it hovered over the world searching for life to destroy.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** stride, lash, sing, dizzy, whine, hover · **To what, where:** world, long whips, cracks, world wide yell

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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 (world), 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:pg2892:6:24
# text = For a great wind strode the world lashing its league-long whips in cracks of thunder, and singing to itself, now in a world-wide yell, now in an ear-dizzying hum and buzz; or with a long snarl and whine it hovered over the world searching for life to destroy.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	lashing	lash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	whips	whip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	dizzying	dizzy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	hum	hum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	buzz	buzz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	snarl	snarl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	whine	whine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	ccomp	_	_
51	over	over	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past |  | the world |  |  |  | for a great wind | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lash** | gerund |  | world's long whips |  | cracks of thunder |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  | world | a world wide yell and a dizzying hum and buzz |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yell=Location |
| 4 | **dizzy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **whine** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hover** | past | world |  |  | the world |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location |
| 7 | **search** | gerund | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for life | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for life=Theme |
| 8 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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