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title: With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plume, powerful as a storm, untiring as the sea. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15

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With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plume, powerful as a storm, untiring as the sea.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bound, untir · **To what, where:** light

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2892:7:15
# text = With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plume, powerful as a storm, untiring as the sea.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	untiring	untir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | past | I | light |  |  |  | with what delight; as a bird's plume | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bound** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **untir** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the sea | tree rules |

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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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