Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9
But on this chase whatever signs the dogs gave were not understood by their master.
Who acts: dogs, master · What happens: give, not understand · To what, where: signs, chase
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:949): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 understood | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 chase | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chase | det |
| 4 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understood | obl |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 6 signs | det |
| 6 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dogs | det |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 signs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 understood | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 understood | advmod |
| 12 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understood | obl:agent |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the dogs | whatever signs not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past · passive | dogs's master | whatever signs | this chase | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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