Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 22

That was the boy whom the Fianna called Oisi’n, or the Little Fawn.

Who acts: That, Fianna · What happens: be, call · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Fianna), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 called	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fianna	det
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
9	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Fawn	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 Fawn	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fawn	det
13	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Fawn	amod
14	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	the boy				the Little Fawn nmod	tree rules
2	call	past	the Fianna	the boy					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme oisi'n=Result

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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