Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 25
He was in the world of men, where movement is not easy and the very air a burden.
Who acts: Aillen, movement, air · What happens: be, not be, burden · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aillen, movement, air), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 world | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 world | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 world | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 easy | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 easy | advmod |
| 10 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 easy | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 easy | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 easy | advmod |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 world | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 burden | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 air | advmod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burden | nsubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 burden | det |
| 19 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 easy | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aillen | the world | of men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | movement | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burden | the air | 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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