Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 44
He placed Fionn at the right hand of his own son Art.
Who acts: son · What happens: place · To what, where: Fionn, right hand
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 (son), 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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod |
| 12 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | son | Fionn | the right hand of son's own son | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme at hand=Destination |
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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