Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 2
Fionn, with all desires, had the lasting one, for he would go anywhere and forsake anything for wisdom; and it was in search of this that he went to the place where Finegas lived on a bank of the Boyne Water.
Who acts: Fionn, wisdom, Finegas · What happens: have, go, forsake, be, live · To what, where: lasting one, anything, search, bank
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, wisdom, Finegas), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 desires | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 desires | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 desires | det |
| 5 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fionn | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fionn | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | conj |
| 16 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forsake | cc |
| 18 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 forsake | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wisdom | case |
| 21 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 anything | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 search | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 search | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 search | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 search | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 search | case |
| 27 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 search | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 went | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 search | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 lived | advmod |
| 37 | Finegas | Finegas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 lived | nsubj |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 place | acl:relcl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 bank | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bank | det |
| 41 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lived | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Water | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Water | det |
| 44 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Water | compound |
| 45 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 bank | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Fionn | the lasting one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | would | Fionn | anywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forsake | infinitive | Fionn not said here | anything | for wisdom | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | wisdom | search | of this | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go | past | Fionn | search not said here | to the place | tree rules | |||
| 6 | live | past | Finegas | a bank of the Boyne Water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |
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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