Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 23

And when time passed she gave birth to me, and I was her son and the son of Cairill the king.

Who acts: time, wife, I · What happens: pass, give, be · To what, where: birth, me, son

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, wife, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 passed	advmod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 gave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 son	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 son	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 son	cop
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 son	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Cairill	case
20	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 son	nmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Cairill	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pass	past	time			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	wife	birth	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to i=Recipient
3	is a	past	I	wife's son and the son of Cairill		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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