Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17

It was to an Ulster gentleman, Iollan Eachtach, that she gave her love, and this chief stated his rights and qualities and asked for her in marriage.

Who acts: form, mother, chief · What happens: be, give, state, ask, love · To what, where: love, rights, marriage

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 (form, mother, chief), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gentleman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentleman	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 gentleman	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
5	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gentleman	compound
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Iollan	punct
8	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gentleman	appos
9	Eachtach	Eachtach	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Iollan	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentleman	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 love	nmod:poss
15	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stated	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 chief	det
19	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stated	nsubj
20	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rights	nmod:poss
22	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stated	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 qualities	cc
24	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rights	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stated	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 marriage	case
30	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gentleman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	form			to a Ulster gentleman	tree rules
2	give	past	mother	mother's love			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
3	state speech: other	past	this chief	chief's rights and qualities			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past	this chief not said here		marriage	for mother	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	love		mother				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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