Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 50
He committed the enormity of winning seven games in succession from the king himself!!!
Who acts: Fionn, enormity · What happens: commit, win · To what, where: enormity, seven games, succession
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 (Fionn, enormity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 committed | nsubj |
| 2 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 enormity | det |
| 4 | enormity | enormity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 committed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 winning | mark |
| 6 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 enormity | acl |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 games | nummod |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 winning | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 succession | case |
| 10 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 winning | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 succession | nmod |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 king | nmod |
| 15 | !!! | !!! | PUNCT | _ | 2 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past | Fionn | the enormity | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enormity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | win | gerund | the enormity not said here | seven games | succession from the king Fionn | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
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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