Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11
For this was the order of Fionn’s affection: first there was the boy; next, Bran and Sceo’lan with their three whelps; then Caelte mac Rona’n, and from him down through the champions.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 order | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 order | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 order | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 order | det |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 affection | case |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 affection | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Fionn | case |
| 9 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 order | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 boy | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 order | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 next | punct |
| 17 | next | next | ADV | _ | 15 boy | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bran | punct |
| 19 | Bran | Bran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 boy | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Sceo’lan | cc |
| 21 | Sceo’lan | Sceo'lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bran | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 whelps | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 whelps | nmod:poss |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 whelps | nummod |
| 25 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Bran | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 mac | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 mac | advmod |
| 28 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mac | compound |
| 29 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 order | appos |
| 30 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mac | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 him | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 him | cc |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 mac | nmod |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 him | compound:prt |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 champions | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 champions | det |
| 38 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 him | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | for the order and the boy; of Fionn's affection | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this not said here | the boy | next property | 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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