Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 9
Is there among you one who loves Tara and the king, and who will undertake our defence against that being?”
Who acts: you, our · What happens: be, love, undertake, defend · To what, where: Tara, defence
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 (you, our), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nsubj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 loves | nsubj |
| 7 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 loves | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 king | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Tara | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 undertake | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 undertake | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 undertake | aux |
| 16 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | parataxis |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 defence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 undertake | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 undertake | obl |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 ? | cop |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertake | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | among one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | present | Tara and the king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tara=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | undertake | future | our defence | against that | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | defend | our | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=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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