Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

He was fair-haired, and it was for his fairness that he was afterwards called Fionn; but at this period he was known as Deimne.

Who acts: life, head · What happens: be, call, know · To what, where: life, period · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (life, head), 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	5 haired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 haired	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 haired	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct
5	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fairness	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fairness	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fairness	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fairness	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fairness	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fairness	nmod:poss
12	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 haired	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 called	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fairness	acl
18	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 known	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 period	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 period	det
23	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 known	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 known	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux:pass
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 haired	parataxis
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 Deimne	case
28	Deimne	Deimne	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 known	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 haired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	life			haired property	tree rules
2	is	past	head			for life's fairness	tree rules
3	call	past · passive		life		afterwards property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	know	past · passive		life	this period	as Deimne	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as deimne=Attribute

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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