Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 31
These two whelps were Bran and Sceo’lan.
Who acts: two whelps · What happens: be · To what, where: Bran
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two whelps), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 whelps | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 whelps | nummod |
| 3 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Bran | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Bran | cop |
| 5 | Bran | Bran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Sceo’lan | cc |
| 7 | Sceo’lan | Sceo'lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bran | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this two whelps | Bran and Sceo’lan | 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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