Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 26
“But,” Finnian objected in bewilderment, “Partholon came to Ireland not long after the Flood.”
Who acts: Finnian, Partholon · What happens: object, come · To what, where: bewilderment, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, Partholon), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 objected | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 objected | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 objected | nsubj |
| 6 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bewilderment | case |
| 8 | bewilderment | bewilderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 objected | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | Partholon | Partholon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 objected | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 came | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 Flood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Flood | det |
| 19 | Flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 objected | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | past | Finnian | bewilderment | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | Partholon | Ireland | after the Flood | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location |
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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