Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

The mother and aunt of the great captain were well treated among the Fianna, first, because they were parents to Fionn, and second, because they were beautiful and noble women.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: treat, be · To what, where: mother, parents, Fionn

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 (dogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 aunt	cc
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 captain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 captain	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 captain	amod
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 aunt	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	aux:pass
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 treated	advmod
11	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 Fianna	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fianna	det
14	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 first	punct
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 treated	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parents	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 parents	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 parents	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 parents	cop
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 treated	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Fionn	case
23	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 parents	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 second	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 second	cc
26	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 treated	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beautiful	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 beautiful	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beautiful	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beautiful	cop
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 treated	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 women	cc
33	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 women	amod
34	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 beautiful	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	treat	past · passive		the mother and aunt of the great captain		among the Fianna; first, second, well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	dogs = dog	parents	Fionn		tree rules
3	is	past	dogs = dog			beautiful 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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