Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 36
And, as to the treasure that remains over, a pastoral staff may be beaten from it in honour of Molasius, the pious man.”
Who acts: treasure · What happens: remain over, beat, honour · To what, where: pastoral staff, treasure, Molasius
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 (treasure), 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 | _ | 6 treasure | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 treasure | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 treasure | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 treasure | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treasure | det |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 remains | nsubj |
| 8 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 remains | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beaten | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staff | det |
| 12 | pastoral | pastoral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 staff | compound |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beaten | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 beaten | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beaten | aux:pass |
| 16 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 treasure | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beaten | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 honour | case |
| 20 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beaten | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Molasius | case |
| 22 | Molasius | Molasius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 honour | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 honour | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain over | present | the treasure | over property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | may · passive | a pastoral staff | treasure | in honour of Molasius | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in honour=Topic | |||
| 3 | honour | Molasius | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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