Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 18
Fiacuil gave him up to them, and he was brought home again to the woods of Slieve Bloom, but he had gathered great knowledge and new supplenesses.
Who acts: Fiacuil, Fionn · What happens: give up, bring, gather · To what, where: Fionn, woods, great knowledge
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiacuil, 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 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woods | det |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bloom | case |
| 18 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bloom | compound |
| 19 | Bloom | Bloom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woods | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gathered | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 gathered | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gathered | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gathered | aux |
| 24 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | conj |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knowledge | amod |
| 26 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gathered | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 supplenesses | cc |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 supplenesses | amod |
| 29 | supplenesses | suppleness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 knowledge | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Fiacuil | Fionn | to guardians = guardian | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | Fionn | the woods of Slieve Bloom | again | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to wood=Destination | ||
| 3 | gather | past · perfect | Fionn | great knowledge and new supplenesses | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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