Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 32
And the champions looked backwards in time on these lips and those, and knew their Chief would go.
Who acts: champions, Chief · What happens: look, know, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (champions, Chief), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 champions | det |
| 3 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lips | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 lips | det |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 those | cc |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 lips | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the champions | time | backwards property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past | the champions not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | would | champions's Chief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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