Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19
“It is a combat of the gods that is taking place.”
Who acts: fright, gods · What happens: be, take · To what, where: combat, place
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 (fright, gods), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 combat | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 combat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 combat | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 combat | det |
| 5 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 combat | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 taking | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | aux |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gods | acl:relcl |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 combat | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 combat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | fright | a combat | of the gods | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · progressive | the gods | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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