Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25
There was Goll mor mac Morna and his people; Fionn’s son Oisi’n and his grandson Oscar.
Who acts: Goll mor mac · What happens: be · To what, where: son Oisi’n
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 (Goll mor mac), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 4 | mor | mor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 5 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 people | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mac | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oisi’n | punct |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Fionn | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Oisi’n | compound |
| 14 | Oisi’n | Oisi'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grandson | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Oisi’n | conj |
| 18 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 grandson | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Goll mor mac and mac's people | son Oisi’n and mac's grandson | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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