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title: The waves of all the world seemed to whirl past them in one huge, gr… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The waves of all the world seemed to whirl past them in one huge, green cataract. Who acts: waves. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 48

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The waves of all the world seemed to whirl past them in one huge, green cataract.

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**Who acts:** waves · **What happens:** seem, whirl, wave · **To what, where:** one huge green cataract, world

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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 (waves), 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:pg2892:71:48
# text = The waves of all the world seemed to whirl past them in one huge, green cataract.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	whirl	whirl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	past	past	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the waves of all world |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **whirl** | to-infinitive | the waves of all world *not said here* |  |  | one huge green cataract |  | past waves *= wave* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Source in cataract=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wave** |  |  | all world |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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