Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3
Only such a blood-tie could have bound them to the clann-Baiscne, for it is not easy, having moved in the world of court and camp, to go hide with a baby in a wood; and to live, as they must have lived, in terror.
Who acts: sister · What happens: bind, not be, have, move, go, hide · To what, where: blood tie, world, wood, terror
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 (sister), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 9 bound | advmod |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 tie | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tie | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tie | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 blood | punct |
| 6 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bound | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bound | aux |
| 9 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bound | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Baiscne | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Baiscne | det |
| 13 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Baiscne | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 clann | punct |
| 15 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bound | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 easy | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 easy | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 easy | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 easy | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 easy | advmod |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bound | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 having | punct |
| 23 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 easy | advcl |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 having | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 court | case |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 world | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 camp | cc |
| 31 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 world | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 having | advcl |
| 35 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 baby | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 baby | det |
| 38 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hide | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 wood | det |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hide | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 live | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 live | cc |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 live | mark |
| 45 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 bound | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 lived | punct |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 lived | mark |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 lived | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 lived | aux |
| 50 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 lived | aux |
| 51 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 live | parataxis |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 terror | punct |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 terror | case |
| 54 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 lived | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | could · perfect · passive | such blood tie | to the clann Baiscne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | move | participle | the world of court and camp | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in world=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | hide | infinitive | a wood | with a baby | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | live | must · perfect | sister | terror | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
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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