Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 37
Once, as they rested on a chase, a debate arose among the Fianna-Finn as to what was the finest music in the world.
Who acts: limbs, debate · What happens: rest, arise, be · To what, where: chase, Fianna Finn, world
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 (limbs, debate), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 rested | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rested | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rested | nsubj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 chase | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chase | det |
| 8 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 debate | det |
| 11 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rested | conj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 Finn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Finn | det |
| 15 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Finn | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fianna | punct |
| 17 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 music | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 music | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 music | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 music | det |
| 23 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 music | amod |
| 24 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 music | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | limbs = limb | a chase | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chase=Location | |||
| 2 | arise | past | a debate | the Fianna Finn | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among finn=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the world | as the finest music | 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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