Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 12
He loved them all, but it was along that precedence his affections ran.
Who acts: Fionn, affection, affections · What happens: love, be, run · To what, where: Bran, precedence
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 (Fionn, affection, affections), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 precedence | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 precedence | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 precedence | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 precedence | cop |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 precedence | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 precedence | det |
| 11 | precedence | precedence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 affections | nmod:poss |
| 13 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 precedence | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Fionn | Bran | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | affection | along that precedence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Fionn's affections | that precedence not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme precedence=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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