Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
Fionn [pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”] got his first training among women.
Who acts: Fionn, tune · What happens: pronounce, rhyme, get, train · To what, where: Fewn, first training
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, tune), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pronounce | nsubj |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 pronounce | punct |
| 3 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Fewn | Fewn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pronounce | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rhyme | mark |
| 6 | rhyme | rhyme | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pronounce | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tune | case |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tune | punct |
| 9 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rhyme | obl |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tune | punct |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tune | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 training | nmod:poss |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 training | amod |
| 15 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 women | case |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pronounce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | infinitive | Fionn | Fewn | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent fewn=Result | ||||
| 2 | rhyme | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | with tune | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with tune=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | past | tune not said here | Fionn's first training | among women | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer training=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | train | Fionn | nom training «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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