Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 13
A man it was, almost as skilled in darkness as Fionn himself “This is no enemy,” Fionn thought; “his walking is open.”
Who acts: man, This, Fionn, walking · What happens: be, think, walk · To what, where: darkness, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, This, Fionn, walking), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skilled | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 skilled | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 skilled | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 skilled | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 skilled | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 skilled | case |
| 8 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 10 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skilled | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 thought | mark |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 12 Fionn | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 15 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 enemy | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 enemy | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 enemy | det |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Fionn | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 21 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | flat |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 skilled | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 open | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 open | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 walking | nmod:poss |
| 26 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 open | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 open | cop |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skilled | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 skilled | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 skilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a man | darkness | almost, skilled property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | no enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Fionn Fionn | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Fionn's walking | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | walk in a quote | Fionn | nom walking «act intransitive»: 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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