Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 31
Triumphant Fionn, who had dealt death to a god, and to whom death would be dealt, and who is now dead!
What happens: deal, be · To what, where: Triumphant Fionn, death
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: 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 | Triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fionn | amod |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dealt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dealt | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dealt | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dealt | aux |
| 6 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dealt | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 god | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dealt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dealt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dealt | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dealt | obl |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dealt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dealt | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dealt | aux:pass |
| 18 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dealt | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dead | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dead | cc |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 dead | advmod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dealt | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 dealt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past · perfect · passive | Triumphant Fionn | to a god | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient death=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deal | would · passive | death | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | now | dead property | 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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