Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 3
But for dread of the clann-Morna he did not go as Fionn.
Who acts: Finegas · What happens: not go, dread · To what, where: clann Morna
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 dread | case |
| 3 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Morna | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Morna | det |
| 6 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Morna | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 clann | punct |
| 8 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dread | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Fionn | case |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · do-support | Finegas | for dread of the clann Morna; as Fionn | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dread=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | dread | the clann Morna | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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