Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6
The Lochlannachs were driven back to their ships, and within a week the only Danes remaining in Ireland were those that had been buried there.
Who acts: only Danes · What happens: drive back, remain, be, bury · To what, where: Lochlannachs, Ireland, only Danes
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 (only Danes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lochlannachs | det |
| 2 | Lochlannachs | Lochlannach | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 driven | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driven | aux:pass |
| 4 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 driven | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ships | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ships | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Danes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Danes | cc |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Danes | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Danes | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Danes | amod |
| 16 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 driven | conj |
| 17 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Danes | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 remaining | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 those | cop |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 remaining | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 buried | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 buried | aux:pass |
| 25 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 those | acl:relcl |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 buried | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive back | past · passive | the Lochlannachs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | gerund | the only Danes not said here | Ireland | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the only Danes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bury | past · perfect · passive | there | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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