Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 1
It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the doors separating this world and the next one are opened, and the inhabitants of either world can leave their respective spheres and appear in the world of the other beings.
Who acts: doors, inhabitants · What happens: know, separate, open, leave, appear · To what, where: It, world, doors, respective spheres · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, inhabitants), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 known | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 opened | mark |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opened | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Feast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Feast | det |
| 12 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opened | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Samhain | case |
| 14 | Samhain | Samhain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Feast | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doors | det |
| 16 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | separating | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 doors | acl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 separating | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 one | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 world | conj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 opened | aux:pass |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leave | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 leave | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 inhabitants | det |
| 29 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 leave | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 inhabitants | nmod |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 leave | aux |
| 34 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | conj |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 spheres | nmod:poss |
| 36 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 spheres | amod |
| 37 | spheres | sphere | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 leave | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 appear | cc |
| 39 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 leave | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 world | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 world | det |
| 42 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 appear | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 beings | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 beings | det |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beings | amod |
| 46 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 world | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | separate | gerund | the doors not said here | this world and the next one | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | present · passive | the doors | night | of the Feast of Samhain | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | can | the inhabitants of either world | world's respective spheres | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sphere=Theme | ||||
| 5 | appear | present | the inhabitants of either world not said here | the world of the other beings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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