Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15
The most famous of men and the most beautiful; the hardest fighter; the easiest giver; the kingly champion; the chief of the Fianna na h-Eirinn.
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 famous | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 famous | advmod |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 famous | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beautiful | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 famous | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fighter | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fighter | det |
| 12 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 fighter | amod |
| 13 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 famous | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 giver | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giver | det |
| 16 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 giver | amod |
| 17 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fighter | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 champion | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 champion | det |
| 20 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 champion | amod |
| 21 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fighter | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 chief | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 famous | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Eirinn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Eirinn | det |
| 27 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Eirinn | compound |
| 28 | na | na | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fianna | punct |
| 29 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Eirinn | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Eirinn | punct |
| 31 | Eirinn | Eirinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 chief | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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