Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11
They must have been young, for one time a Leinsterman came on them, a great robber named Fiacuil mac Cona, and he killed the poets.
Who acts: tales, Leinsterman · What happens: be, come, name, kill · To what, where: great robber, poets
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, Leinsterman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 young | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 young | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 young | cop |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 time | nummod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Leinsterman | det |
| 11 | Leinsterman | Leinsterman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 robber | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 robber | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robber | amod |
| 18 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 robber | acl |
| 20 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mac | compound |
| 21 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 22 | Cona | Cona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mac | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 killed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 killed | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 killed | nsubj |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 poets | det |
| 28 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 killed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · perfect | tales = tale | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a Leinsterman | a great robber | time | on tales = tale | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location | ||
| 3 | name | participle | a great robber not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill | past | Leinsterman | the poets | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme |
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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