Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 47
It was because of his reputation that Uct Dealv was bringing the hound to him.
Who acts: dog, Uct · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: hound
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Uct), 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 reputation | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reputation | cop |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 reputation | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 because | fixed |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 bringing | mark |
| 8 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | nsubj |
| 9 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Uct | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bringing | aux |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 reputation | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hound | det |
| 13 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bringing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reputation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog | because house's reputation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · progressive | Uct | the hound | hound | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hound=Theme to he=Destination |
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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