Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 18
“When he raised the High King against me and banished me from Ireland.”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: raise, banish · To what, where: High King, Fionn, Ireland
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 (Fionn), 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 | _ | 4 raised | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 raised | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 6 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 raised | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 banished | cc |
| 11 | banished | banish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 banished | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 banished | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise in a quote | past | Fionn | the High King | against Fionn | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme against i=Destination | |||
| 2 | banish in a quote | past | Fionn not said here | Fionn | Ireland | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from ireland=Source |
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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