Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 40
Fergus then turned to the side of Goll mac Morna, and he sang of the Forts, the Destructions, the Raids, and the Wooings of clann-Morna; and as the poems succeeded each other, Goll grew more and more jovial and contented.
Who acts: Fergus, poems, Goll · What happens: turn, sing, succeed, grow, content, woo · To what, where: Wooings, side, each, clann
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, poems, Goll), 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 | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mac | case |
| 8 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | compound |
| 9 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sang | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sang | nsubj |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Destructions | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Forts | det |
| 17 | Forts | Fort | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Destructions | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Destructions | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Destructions | det |
| 20 | Destructions | destruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sang | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Raids | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Raids | det |
| 23 | Raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Destructions | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Wooings | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Wooings | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Wooings | det |
| 27 | Wooings | wooing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 clann | case |
| 29 | clann | clann | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Wooings | nmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Morna | punct |
| 31 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wooings | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 succeeded | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 succeeded | cc |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 poems | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 poems | det |
| 36 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 succeeded | nsubj |
| 37 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 38 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 37 succeeded | obj |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 each | fixed |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 grew | punct |
| 41 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 grew | nsubj |
| 42 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 succeeded | conj |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 jovial | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 jovial | cc |
| 45 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 jovial | advmod |
| 46 | jovial | jovial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 grew | xcomp |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 contented | cc |
| 48 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 jovial | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Fergus | the Wooings of clann and Morna | the side of Goll mac | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Fergus | of the Destructions and the Raids | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past | the poems | each | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | Goll | jovial property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | content | participle | Goll not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | woo | clann | nom wooing «communication 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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