Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood of Fionn, sentence 1
He was a king, a seer and a poet.
Who acts: He · What happens: be · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, The Boyhood of Fionn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 king | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seer | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seer | det |
| 7 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 poet | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 poet | det |
| 10 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a king and a seer and a poet | 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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