Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

Bovmall was Uail’s sister, and, consequently, Fionn’s aunt.

Who acts: Bovmall · What happens: be · To what, where: sister

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 (Bovmall), 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	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sister	cop
3	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Uail	case
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aunt	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 aunt	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	consequently	consequently	ADV	_	13 aunt	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 consequently	punct
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 aunt	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Fionn	case
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sister	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bovmall	Uail's sister and Fionn's aunt					tree rules

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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