Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 23
He grew to be a great fighter afterwards, and he was the chief maker of poems in the world.
Who acts: Fianna · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: great fighter, chief maker
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fighter | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fighter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fighter | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fighter | amod |
| 7 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | advcl |
| 8 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 grew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maker | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 maker | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 maker | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 maker | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maker | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maker | amod |
| 15 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 poems | case |
| 17 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 maker | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poems | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Fianna | afterwards property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Fianna not said here | a great fighter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Fianna | the chief maker | of poems in the world | 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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