Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11
That is, her brother was Lugh of the Long Hand himself, and with a god, and such a god, for brother we may marvel that she could have been in dread of Morna or his sons, or of any one.
Who acts: That, we, mother · What happens: be, marvel · To what, where: Lugh, dread
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 (That, we, mother), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Lugh | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lugh | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lugh | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lugh | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lugh | cop |
| 7 | Lugh | Lugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Hand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hand | det |
| 10 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Hand | amod |
| 11 | Hand | Hand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lugh | nmod |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 Hand | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 god | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 god | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 god | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lugh | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 god | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 god | cc |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 god | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 god | det |
| 22 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 marvel | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marvel | obl |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 marvel | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 marvel | aux |
| 28 | marvel | marvel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 god | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 dread | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dread | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 dread | aux |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 dread | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 dread | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 dread | case |
| 35 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marvel | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Morna | case |
| 37 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 dread | nmod |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 sons | cc |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sons | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Morna | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 one | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 one | cc |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dread | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | Lugh | of the Long Hand Lugh | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marvel | may | we | for brother | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | could · perfect | mother | dread or any one | of Morna or Lugh's sons | 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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