Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 25
Fionn stayed with his guardians and hunted for them.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: stay, hunt
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 (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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 guardians | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 5 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stayed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hunted | cc |
| 7 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stayed | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hunted | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Fionn | with Fionn's guardians | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with guardian=Location | ||||
| 2 | hunt | participle | Fionn not said here | for guardians = guardian | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=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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