Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
We may be sure that on these adventures Fionn was with his father, going step for step with the long-striding hero, and heartening him mightily.
Who acts: We, Fionn, father · What happens: be, go, stride, hearten · To what, where: adventures, step, Fionn
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 (We, Fionn, father), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 adventures | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 adventures | det |
| 8 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 that | obl |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 father | cop |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 father | acl |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 step | case |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hero | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hero | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 striding | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 23 | striding | stride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hero | amod |
| 24 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 step | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heartening | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 heartening | cc |
| 27 | heartening | hearten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 father | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heartening | obj |
| 29 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 27 heartening | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | We | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Fionn | this adventures not said here | with Fionn's father | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | Fionn's father not said here | step | for step with the striding hero | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | |||
| 4 | stride | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | hearten | gerund | Fionn not said here | Fionn | mightily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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