Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12
But it is of Uail mac Baiscne he would have heard most.
Who acts: other · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: Uail mac Baiscne
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Baiscne | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Baiscne | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Baiscne | case |
| 5 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baiscne | compound |
| 6 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baiscne | compound |
| 7 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | aux |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 heard | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | other | of Uail mac Baiscne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | would · perfect · passive | Uail mac Baiscne | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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