Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 9
“It was the duty of one of the Brothers of Devenish,” he continued, “to turn out the cattle this morning before the dawn of day, and that Brother, while in his duty, saw eight comely young men who fought together.”
Who acts: fist, man, Brother, eight comely young men · What happens: be, continue, turn out, see, fight · To what, where: duty, cattle, eight comely young men · 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 (fist, man, Brother, eight comely young men), 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 | _ | 5 duty | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 duty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 duty | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 duty | det |
| 5 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Brothers | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Brothers | nummod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Brothers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brothers | det |
| 10 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 duty | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Devenish | case |
| 12 | Devenish | Devenish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brothers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 duty | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 duty | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 continued | nsubj |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 turn | mark |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continued | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 turn | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cattle | det |
| 23 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obj |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 dawn | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dawn | det |
| 28 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dawn | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 saw | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 Brother | mark |
| 34 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 duty | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 duty | mark |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 duty | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 duty | nmod:poss |
| 39 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Brother | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Brother | punct |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 continued | conj |
| 42 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 men | nummod |
| 43 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 men | amod |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 men | amod |
| 45 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 saw | obj |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 fought | nsubj |
| 47 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 men | acl:relcl |
| 48 | together | together | ADV | _ | 47 fought | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | fist | the duty | of the one Brothers of Devenish | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | past | man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn out in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | the cattle | dawn; morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cattle=Theme | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | Brother | eight comely young men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | past | eight comely young men | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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