Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13
However it may be, when Uall died Muirne got married again to the King of Kerry.
Who acts: Uall · What happens: be, die, marry · To what, where: Muirne
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 (Uall), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 died | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 However | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 died | advmod |
| 7 | Uall | Uall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Muirne | Muirne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 married | aux:pass |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 died | ccomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 married | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kerry | case |
| 17 | Kerry | Kerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | past | Uall | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | Muirne | again | to the King of Kerry | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to king=Co-Patient |
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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