Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6
He was unmarried, but he had many foster-sons, princes from the Four Provinces, who were sent by their fathers as tokens of loyalty and affection to the Ard-Ri, and his duties as a foster-father were righteously acquitted.
Who acts: conjecture, fathers, many foster sons · What happens: unmarry, have, send, acquit · To what, where: conjecture, many foster sons, duties
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conjecture, fathers, many foster sons), 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 | 3 unmarried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unmarried | aux:pass |
| 3 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unmarried | conj |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sons | amod |
| 9 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 foster | punct |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 princes | punct |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sons | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Provinces | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Provinces | det |
| 16 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Provinces | nummod |
| 17 | Provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 princes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sons | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 fathers | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 tokens | case |
| 26 | tokens | token | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 loyalty | case |
| 28 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tokens | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 affection | cc |
| 30 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loyalty | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Ri | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Ri | det |
| 33 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ri | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ard | punct |
| 35 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 affection | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 duties | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 duties | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 duties | nmod:poss |
| 39 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 acquitted | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 father | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 father | det |
| 42 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 father | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 foster | punct |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 duties | nmod |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 acquitted | aux:pass |
| 46 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 47 acquitted | advmod |
| 47 | acquitted | acquit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unmarried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unmarry | past · passive | conjecture | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | conjecture | many foster sons and princes from the Four Provinces | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | Provinces's fathers | many foster sons and princes from the Four Provinces | as tokens of loyalty and affection to the Ard Ri | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | acquit | past · passive | many foster sons and princes from the Four Provinces not said here | conjecture's duties as a foster father | righteously property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» |
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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