Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 3
He bade farewell to the gentle poet, and set out for Tara of the Kings.
Who acts: bade · What happens: set out
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 (bade), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 7 poet | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 poet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poet | det |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 poet | amod |
| 7 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Tara | case |
| 13 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kings | det |
| 16 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Tara | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | bade to the gentle poet not said here | for Tara of the Kings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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