Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30
And he has sent us to find out what part of that hellish treasure belongs to the Brothers of Devenish and how much is the property of the king.”
Who acts: man, part · What happens: send, find out, belong, be · To what, where: us, much property · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, part), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belongs | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 treasure | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 treasure | det |
| 13 | hellish | hellish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 treasure | amod |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 15 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Brothers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Brothers | det |
| 18 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 belongs | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Devenish | case |
| 20 | Devenish | Devenish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brothers | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 property | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 property | amod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 property | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 property | det |
| 26 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Brothers | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 property | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | man | us | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong | present | what part of that hellish treasure | to the Brothers of Devenish and the much property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | what part of that hellish treasure not said here | the much property | of the king | 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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