Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3
Fionn and the Fianna-Finn marched against them.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: march
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 (Fionn), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 marched | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Finn | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Finn | det |
| 4 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Finn | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fianna | punct |
| 6 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fionn | conj |
| 7 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 marched | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | Fionn and the Fianna Finn | against Danes = dane | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against they=Trajectory |
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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