Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
He bent his gaze on the ground between his feet, and entered into a meditation from which he would Only be released by admission or death.
Who acts: abbot, admission · What happens: bend, enter, release, gaze · To what, where: gaze, ground, meditation, abbot
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 (abbot, admission), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ground | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 entered | cc |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bent | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 meditation | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meditation | det |
| 16 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 released | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 released | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 released | aux |
| 21 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 23 released | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 released | aux:pass |
| 23 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 meditation | acl:relcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 admission | case |
| 25 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 released | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 death | cc |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 admission | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | abbot | abbot's gaze | the ground between abbot's feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent gaze=Theme on ground=Location | |||
| 2 | enter | past | abbot not said here | a meditation | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into meditation=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | release | would · passive | admission or death | abbot | a meditation | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source | |||
| 4 | gaze | abbot | nom gaze «act intransitive»: 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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