Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 45
“It is Aillen mac Midna’s own spear,” he continued, “and it was taken out of his Shi’ by your father.”
Who acts: head, Fiacuil, father · What happens: be, continue, take out · To what, where: it, Shi
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 (head, Fiacuil, father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spear | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mac | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mac | cop |
| 4 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 5 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Midna | Midna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 mac | case |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spear | amod |
| 9 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 continued | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spear | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spear | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taken | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 continued | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 Shi | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Shi | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Shi | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Shi | punct |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 father | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | head | 's Aillen mac | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Fiacuil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take out in a quote | past · passive | your father | it | Fiacuil's Shi | tree rules |
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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