Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 20
The sureties to this bargain were Caelte mac Ronan, Goll mac Morna, and Lugaidh.
Who acts: sureties · What happens: be · To what, where: Caelte mac
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 (sureties), 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 sureties | det |
| 2 | sureties | surety | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mac | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bargain | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 bargain | det |
| 5 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sureties | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mac | cop |
| 7 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | compound |
| 8 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | Ronan | Ronan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mac | punct |
| 11 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | compound |
| 12 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | appos |
| 13 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lugaidh | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Lugaidh | cc |
| 16 | Lugaidh | Lugaidh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sureties to this bargain | Caelte mac and Lugaidh | 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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