Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 9
There was Garra Duv mac Morna, and savage Art Og, who cared as little for their own skins as they did for the next man’s, and Garra must have been rough indeed to have earned in that clan the name of the Rough mac Morna.
Who acts: Garra Duv mac, Art Og, men, Garra · What happens: be, care, do, earn, name · To what, where: clan, Rough mac
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 (Garra Duv mac, Art Og, men, Garra), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Garra | Garra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 4 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 5 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cared | cc |
| 9 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Art | amod |
| 10 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Og | compound |
| 11 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cared | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cared | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 cared | nsubj |
| 14 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 little | case |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cared | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 skins | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 skins | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skins | amod |
| 20 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cared | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cared | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obl |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 man | case |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rough | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rough | cc |
| 31 | Garra | Garra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 rough | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 rough | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 rough | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 rough | cop |
| 35 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cared | conj |
| 36 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 35 rough | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 earned | mark |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 earned | aux |
| 39 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 rough | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 clan | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 clan | det |
| 42 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 earned | obl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 name | det |
| 44 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 clan | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 mac | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 mac | det |
| 47 | Rough | Rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 mac | amod |
| 48 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 name | nmod |
| 49 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 mac | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Garra Duv mac | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | care | past | Art Og | as little; for men's own skins | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for skin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | men = man | for the next man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | must · perfect | Garra | indeed, rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | earn | to-infinitive · perfect | Garra not said here | that clan | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | name | the Rough mac | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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