Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 40
Fionn went to seek his fortune, to match himself against all that might happen, and to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman.
Who acts: Fionn, that, Time · What happens: go, seek, match, happen, carve, live · To what, where: fortune, Fionn, name, ear, Irishman
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, that, Time), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 seek | mark |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seek | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 match | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 match | mark |
| 9 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seek | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 match | obj |
| 11 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 happen | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 match | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carve | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carve | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carve | mark |
| 19 | carve | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seek | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carve | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 live | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 live | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | aux |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carve | advcl |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 has | mark |
| 28 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 has | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | advcl |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 ear | det |
| 31 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 has | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 knows | cc |
| 33 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 has | conj |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Irishman | det |
| 35 | Irishman | irishman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knows | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | Fionn's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | match | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | Fionn | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | might | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carve | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | a name | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | future | Fionn | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | present | Time | a ear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 8 | know | present | Time not said here | a Irishman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer irishman=Stimulus |
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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