Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2
He was away, bound with his band of poets for the Galtees.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, bind
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 (Fionn), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 away | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 away | cop |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bound | punct |
| 5 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 away | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 band | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 band | nmod:poss |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bound | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 poets | case |
| 10 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 band | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Galtees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Galtees | det |
| 13 | Galtees | Galtees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 poets | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fionn | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind | participle | Fionn not said here | with Fionn's band of poets for the Galtees | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with band=Co-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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