Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 20
The nobles of Ireland with their winsome consorts, the learned and artistic professions represented by the pick of their time were in place.
Who acts: nobles · What happens: learn, represent, be, pick · To what, where: learned professions, place, time
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 (nobles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 place | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nobles | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 consorts | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 consorts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | winsome | winsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 consorts | amod |
| 8 | consorts | consort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nobles | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 professions | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 professions | det |
| 11 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 professions | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 artistic | cc |
| 13 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 learned | conj |
| 14 | professions | profession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 consorts | conj |
| 15 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 professions | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 pick | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pick | det |
| 18 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represented | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pick | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | represent | participle | the learned professions not said here | by the pick of nobles's time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the nobles of Ireland with nobles's winsome consorts and the learned professions | place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | nobles's time | nom pick «cognition 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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