Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 17
Deeds grow old in a day and are buried in a night.
Who acts: Deeds · What happens: grow, bury
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 (Deeds), 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 | Deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grow | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | aux:pass |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grow | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Deeds | day | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bury | present · passive | Deeds not said here | night | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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