Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 8
Here a gay band went carrying rich treasure to decorate the pavilion of a Munster lord.
Who acts: gay band · What happens: go, carry, decorate · To what, where: rich treasure, pavilion
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 (gay band), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 band | det |
| 3 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 band | amod |
| 4 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | xcomp |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 treasure | amod |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 decorate | mark |
| 10 | decorate | decorate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 carrying | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pavilion | det |
| 12 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decorate | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lord | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 15 | Munster | munster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | compound |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pavilion | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a gay band | here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a gay band not said here | rich treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decorate | to-infinitive | a gay band not said here | the pavilion of a Munster lord | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavilion=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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