Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste.
Who acts: Finnian · What happens: go · To what, where: southwards, great haste
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian), 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 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Abbott | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Abbott | det |
| 4 | Abbott | Abbott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Finnian | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moville | case |
| 6 | Moville | Moville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Abbott | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finnian | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | southwards | southward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eastwards | cc |
| 11 | eastwards | eastward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 southwards | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 haste | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 haste | amod |
| 14 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Finnian and the Abbott of Moville | southwards and eastwards | great haste | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location southward=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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