Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 38
That he was versed in magic is true, for he was ever known as the Knowledgeable man, and later he had two magicians in his household named Dirim and mac-Reith to do the rough work of knowledge for their busy master.
Who acts: magic, Fionn, knowledge · What happens: verse, be, know, have, name, do · To what, where: That, Fionn, two magicians, household, rough work
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 (magic, Fionn, knowledge), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 versed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 versed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 versed | aux:pass |
| 4 | versed | verse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 true | case |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 versed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 known | advmod |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 versed | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | Knowledgeable | knowledgeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 had | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 versed | conj |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 magicians | nummod |
| 25 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 household | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 household | nmod:poss |
| 28 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 29 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 household | acl |
| 30 | Dirim | Dirim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 named | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mac | cc |
| 32 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Dirim | conj |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Reith | punct |
| 34 | Reith | Reith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Dirim | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 named | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 work | det |
| 38 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 work | amod |
| 39 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 knowledge | case |
| 41 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 work | nmod |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 master | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 master | nmod:poss |
| 44 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 master | amod |
| 45 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 versed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | verse | past · passive | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | magic | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | Fionn | ever | as the Knowledgeable man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as man=Attribute | |||
| 4 | have | past | Fionn | two magicians | Fionn's household | late property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient | ||
| 5 | name | participle | Fionn's household not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | the rough work of knowledge | for Dirim's busy master | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | work | knowledge | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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