Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 15
His arrival had been timed for the opening day and the great feast of welcome.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: time, arrive · To what, where: arrival
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 timed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 timed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 timed | aux:pass |
| 5 | timed | time | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 timed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feast | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 welcome | case |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feast | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 timed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | time | past · perfect · passive | Fionn's arrival | day | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | Fionn | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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