Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16
“Long ago, Fionn, in the days when your father forced war on me.”
Who acts: father · What happens: force, war
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 Fionn | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 Fionn | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Fionn | appos |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 war | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 war | nsubj |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 war | amod |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fionn | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 war | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force in a quote | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | war in a quote | your father | on Fionn | tree rules |
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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