Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
Before he joined the Fianna he had been in love with a lady of the Shi’, named Uct Dealv (Fair Breast), and they had been sweethearts for years.
Who acts: future, love · What happens: join, be, name · To what, where: Fianna, love, sweethearts
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 (future, love), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 joined | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fianna | det |
| 5 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 love | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 love | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 love | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 love | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shi | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Shi | det |
| 16 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lady | nmod |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 lady | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 named | punct |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 love | parataxis |
| 20 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 21 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Uct | flat |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Breast | punct |
| 23 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Breast | amod |
| 24 | Breast | Breast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Uct | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Breast | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sweethearts | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sweethearts | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sweethearts | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sweethearts | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 sweethearts | cop |
| 31 | sweethearts | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 love | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sweethearts | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | future | the Fianna | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fianna=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | future | love and sweethearts | with a lady of the Shi | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | love | sweethearts | year | 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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