Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20
Bravery is pride when one is young, and Fionn was proud.
Who acts: Bravery pride, Fionn · What happens: be · To what, where: Bravery pride
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 (Bravery pride, 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 | Bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pride | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pride | cop |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 young | nsubj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 young | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 young | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 young | cop |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proud | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 proud | cc |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 proud | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proud | cop |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 young | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bravery pride | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Bravery pride | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fionn | proud property | tree rules |
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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