Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 37
Yet he did know that a great moment had arrived for the poet.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: know, arrive · To what, where: great moment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moment | amod |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrived | aux |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 poet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 poet | det |
| 13 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · do-support | Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | a great moment | for the poet | 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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