Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32
I liberated fifteen prisoners, and one of them was Fionn.”
Who acts: I, one · What happens: liberate, be · To what, where: fifteen prisoners, 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 (I, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 liberated | nsubj |
| 2 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 prisoners | nummod |
| 4 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 liberated | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fionn | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Fionn | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Fionn | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Fionn | cop |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 liberated | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fionn | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 liberated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liberate | past | I | fifteen prisoners | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | one of prisoners | 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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