Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14
How their voices would have become a chant as feat was added to feat, glory piled on glory.
Who acts: voices, chant · What happens: become, add, pile · To what, where: chant, feat, glory
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 (voices, chant), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 become | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voices | nmod:poss |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 become | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 become | aux |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chant | det |
| 8 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 added | mark |
| 10 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 added | aux:pass |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chant | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feat | case |
| 14 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glory | punct |
| 16 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feat | appos |
| 17 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 glory | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 glory | case |
| 19 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would · perfect | ladies's voices | a chant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past · passive | a chant not said here | feat | to feat | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to feat=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | pile | participle | glory not said here | glory | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on glory=Destination |
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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