Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24

“I went into the land of the Saxons and your father chased me out of that land.

Who acts: Fionn, father · What happens: go, chase · To what, where: land, Fionn

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, 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	_	3 went	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Saxons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Saxons	det
9	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 land	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chased	cc
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	nsubj
13	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 chased	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	Fionn			the land of the Saxons			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
2	chase in a quote	past	your father	Fionn		that land			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out land=Trajectory

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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