Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 39
It was not from the Shi’, however, that assistance came to Fionn.
Who acts: magic, Shi · What happens: not be, come · To what, where: Shi, Fionn
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, Shi), 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 | 6 Shi | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Shi | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Shi | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Shi | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Shi | det |
| 6 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 Shi | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shi | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 however | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 assistance | det |
| 12 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Fionn | case |
| 15 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | magic | the Shi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Shi | Fionn | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fionn=Initial_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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