Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 25
More, there was no hunter of them all who even distantly approached him in excellence.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: be, approach · To what, where: hunter, excellence
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 (hunter), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 More | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hunter | nmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 approached | nsubj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 approached | advmod |
| 12 | distantly | distantly | ADV | _ | 13 approached | advmod |
| 13 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 approached | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 excellence | case |
| 16 | excellence | excellence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approached | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no hunter of others | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | hunter | excellence | distantly property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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