Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 33
He went southwards and was next in the employment of the King of Kerry, the same lord who had married his own mother.
Who acts: King, same lord · What happens: go, be, marry · To what, where: employment, own mother
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 (King, same lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:513): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | southwards | southwards | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 employment | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 employment | cop |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 9 employment | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 employment | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 employment | det |
| 9 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 employment | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kerry | case |
| 14 | Kerry | Kerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lord | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lord | amod |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 King | appos |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 married | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 married | aux |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 lord | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mother | amod |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 married | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | southwards property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | King not said here | the employment | of the King of Kerry; next property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect | the same lord | King's own mother | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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