Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 38

Fergus, called True-Lips, the poet of the Fianna-Finn, then sang of Fionn and his ancestors and their deeds.

Who acts: Fergus · What happens: call, sing · To what, where: True Lips · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fergus), 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	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sang	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fergus	punct
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fergus	acl
4	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lips	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 True	punct
6	Lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poet	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poet	det
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fergus	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 Finn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Finn	det
12	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Finn	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Fianna	punct
14	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 poet	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fergus	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sang	advmod
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Fionn	case
19	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sang	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ancestors	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ancestors	nmod:poss
22	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Fionn	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deeds	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 deeds	nmod:poss
25	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Fionn	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Fergus not said here	True Lips					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	Fergus				then	of Fionn and Fionn's ancestors and poets's deeds	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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