Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5
This gentleman’s name was Fergus Fionnliath, and his stronghold was near the harbour of Galway.
Who acts: name, stronghold, gentleman · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Fergus, harbour
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 (name, stronghold, gentleman), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gentleman | det |
| 2 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 gentleman | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergus | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fergus | cop |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Fionnliath | Fionnliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergus | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 harbour | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 harbour | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stronghold | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 harbour | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 harbour | cop |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 harbour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harbour | det |
| 15 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergus | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Galway | case |
| 17 | Galway | Galway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 harbour | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fergus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this gentleman's name | Fergus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man's stronghold | the harbour | of Galway | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | this gentleman | nom name «communication 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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