Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
Many a sharp cry the hound gave in that journey, many a mild lament.
Who acts: hound, many · What happens: give, lament · To what, where: sharp cry, journey
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hound, many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cry | amod |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hound | det |
| 6 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lament | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lament | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lament | det |
| 14 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lament | amod |
| 15 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the hound | a sharp cry and a mild lament not said here | that journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | |||
| 2 | lament | many | 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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