Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 9
Many a wound I got from men, many a sorrowful scar.
Who acts: Many wound, many · What happens: get, scar
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 (Many wound, many), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wound | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wound | det |
| 3 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scar | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scar | nsubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scar | det |
| 11 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scar | amod |
| 12 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a Many wound | from men and a sorrowful scar | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from man=Destination | ||||
| 2 | scar | many | tree rules |
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.
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