Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30
“At that battle I beat the Lochlannachs.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: beat · To what, where: Lochlannachs, battle
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 | _ | 6 beat | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 battle | det |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beat | nsubj |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lochlannachs | det |
| 8 | Lochlannachs | Lochlannachs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | present | Fionn | the Lochlannachs | that battle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lochlannachs=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/30/