Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood of Fionn, sentence 3
He was our magician, our knowledgable one, our soothsayer.
Who acts: He · What happens: be · To what, where: magician
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 magician | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 magician | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 magician | nmod:poss |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knowledgable | knowledgeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magician | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soothsayer | punct |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soothsayer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magician | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 magician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | our magician and our knowledgable one and our soothsayer | 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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