Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16
His name came from boys, and will, perhaps, be preserved by them.
Who acts: name, Boys, master · What happens: come, preserve, name
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Boys, master), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 boys | case |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 preserved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 preserved | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 preserved | aux |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 preserved | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 perhaps | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 preserved | aux:pass |
| 13 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 preserved | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | master's name | from boys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from boy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | preserve | future · passive | Boys = boy | perhaps property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | master | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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