Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 25

For this same Fiacuil was the husband of Bovmall, Fionn’s aunt.

What happens: be · To what, where: husband

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 Fiacuil	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Fiacuil	nsubj
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fiacuil	amod
4	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 husband	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 husband	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 husband	det
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Bovmall	case
9	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 husband	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aunt	punct
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 aunt	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Fionn	case
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 husband	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 husband	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the husband and Fionn's aunt				for same Fiacuil; of Bovmall	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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