Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10
Among the three hundred dogs which Fionn owned there were two to whom he gave an especial tenderness, and who were his daily and nightly companions.
Who acts: Fionn, two · What happens: own, be, give · To what, where: hundred dogs, especial tenderness, daily companions
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, two), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 dogs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dogs | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dogs | nummod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 owned | obj |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 owned | nsubj |
| 8 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 were | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 two | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tenderness | det |
| 17 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tenderness | amod |
| 18 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 companions | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 companions | cc |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 companions | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 companions | cop |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 companions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 companions | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nightly | cc |
| 26 | nightly | nightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 daily | conj |
| 27 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | Fionn | the hundred dogs | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | two | there | among the hundred dogs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among dog=Location | |||
| 3 | give | past | Fionn | a especial tenderness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenderness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Fionn's daily companions | 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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