Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

But Tuan was avid of information about the True God.

Who acts: Tuan · What happens: be

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 (Tuan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 avid	cc
2	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 avid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 avid	cop
4	avid	avid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 information	case
6	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avid	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 God	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 God	det
9	True	True	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 God	compound
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 information	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 avid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tuan					of information about the True God; avid property	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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