Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25
And then, in Lochlann, at the battle of Cnocha your father and I met at last, foot to foot, eye to eye, and there, Fionn!”
Who acts: Lochlann · What happens: meet, battle · To what, where: last foot, Cnocha
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 (Lochlann), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 met | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lochlann | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Lochlann | case |
| 5 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 battle | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lochlann | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Cnocha | case |
| 11 | Cnocha | Cnocha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 battle | nmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Cnocha | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 I | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Lochlann | conj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 foot | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 last | punct |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eye | punct |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 foot | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 eye | case |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 there | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 there | cc |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 met | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fionn | punct |
| 31 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 there | vocative |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fionn | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Lochlann | last foot | then | to foot and eye; to eye | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | battle | Cnocha | nom battle «act 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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